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Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory.

The consistent and persistent man of average intelligence is more likely to succeed than an erratic and lazy genius.

We want any effort on our part to be the winning effort. We don't want to be a drop in the bucket, we want to ...

Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.

I miss those times when I hadn't a clue.

Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them.

You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

I remember some students in my high school who complained about the compulsory history classes. Young as we were, we didn't realize that the course ...

I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me.

My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma.

As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports ...

Life is Death. Death is Life. Teach the deserving. Teach with passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing.

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

We clung to each other with a kind of desperate longing...I never understood exactly what it was, not until I became a hexagenarian. It was ...

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, ...

In evil times, when public virtue has left the earth, ancient writings are of little account, and no one cares to disturb the silence of ...

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

if no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there.

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls ...

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to ...

The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which ...

My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet ... none of the systems are more effective ...

I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.

It's a disgrace to us all! he almost screamed. 'We're letting them take us to our death like sheep to the slaughter!.....at least we could ...

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

Having seen all of their fathers and husbands walk out the door[...], each woman understood most completely the nature of women's interconnectedness. Being reliant upon ...

I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments ...

The magnitude of any one day is compromised by its passing quickly into the next, a mere moment in time which soon fades into the ...

If the Apostle justly prohibits the use of unknown tongues in the church, much less would he have tolerated these artificial musical performances, which are ...

Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a superb scene. I ...

Pain is inevitable but suffering is a choice.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

At the heart of all things is love.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

Informatics is the field of medicine that concerns itself with "the interactions among and between humans and information tools and systems." In 2013, it became ...

Todd and Tim [Tobias] write the music, and I come up with the melodies and lyrics. I call it the Ohio Rock Factory. Tim and ...

True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.

Thinking cannot think now into being present.

you couldn't findyour way out of a small shed with a map, lighted signs, and anescort

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend ...

He'd come to the Foxhole Court every inch a lie, but his friends made him into someone real.

You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just ...

This book was supposed to be finished at Easter, like God.

With dreams comes responsibility.

Nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

I like to quote the words of Kierkegaard, that 'life ia a poem that we are able to write ourselves; but a Christian lets God ...

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

I watched her silently as she retreated. And somewhere deep down inside, somewhere where there were no rules and no limits, somewhere where only the ...

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Memorial Day weekend is the time we drink up all the booze and eat up all the grub that the soldiers didn't get to. It's ...

We all have problems, but let's not kid ourselves: it's how we deal with them that makes the difference.

You never needed wings to fly,You only needed love.

Don't say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He's not. The thing that's going to send you to hell is ...

Some people say a person receives a position in this church through revelation, and others say they get it through inspiration, but I say they ...

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its ...

If you care to know, majority of successful people in the world were all struck by limitations in one way or the other. What made ...

Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.

Rhythm is a conception, not a physical reality. It is true that, to be realized in music, rhythm must be marked by some sort of ...

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

destroy me. love me. warp my image in photoshop with filter presetspush me off the brink of sanity. edit my sister sister fan fiction without ...

Dworkin, for example, argues that our law includes not only norms found in treaties, customs, constitutions, statutes, and cases, but also moral principles that provide ...

There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.

Although European thinkers see the Greeks as their intellectual forebears, the Greeks themselves looked toward the East for the sources of true wisdom-to Egypt, Persia, ...

The UNFPA and other population control organizations are loath to report the truth about falling fertility rates worldwide, since they raise funds by frightening people ...

The things you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling.

Your power is not in yesterday or in tomorrow. It's not over there somewhere waiting for you to reach it. It's not hidden behind some ...

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear.Replacethe leerof the minstrel's burnt-cork facewith a proud, sereneand classic bronze of Benin.

There is perhaps nothing so remarkable about Jesus than the fact that he advanced himself as the object of faith, love, and obedience, and yet ...

Playing. With. Fire," he said while jabbing the stick of butter he was holding at me to emphasize each word. "That lost a little something ...

Hell is just stupidityand blunderingand crassness;a gross assaulton the sensitivitiesof the least

One basic truth can be used as a foundation for a mountain of lies

I have always found the word 'Europe' in the mouths of those politicians who wanted from other powers something they did not dare to demand ...

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can ...

Emotions are the keys to learning, the keys to imprinting. The stronger the emotion, the more clearly the experience is learned.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust ...

The nice word for you is methodical. Obsessive-compulsive is the meaner phrase, and one you've truly earned.

I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

The Rev's house is similar to Fiji's, but it's older, smaller, and has only sparse grass in the little front yard. It is also in ...

Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your ...

It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.Aristotle

Discipleship is developing a personal, lifelong, obedient relationship with Jesus Christ in which He transforms your character into Christlikeness; changes your values to Kingdom values; ...

Wicca offered real, not pretended, means for the individual to express the art, beauty, and reality of ritual, including magic, in the here and now. ...

You know what they say, Two pairs a company, cheese a croud

Apologies tended to give him migraines, which was why he avoided them. (Eoin)

I've always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I ...

To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a ...

Why do you want to be a lawyer, Miss Everhart?" "I enjoy screwing people over," she said. "I figure I might as well get paid ...

It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go ...