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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Bertrand Russell
Brian Tracy quote: "Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you..."
Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside Brian Tracy
he took a cable which had been service on a blue-bowed ship, made one end fast to a high column in the portico, and threw the other over the round-house, high up, so that their feet would not touch the ground. As when long-winged thrushes or doves get entangled in a snare . . . so the women's heads were held fast in a row, with nooses round their necks, to bring them to the most pitiable end. For a little while their feet twitched, but not for very long. Homer
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I know that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of... Thomas Jefferson
To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Pearl S. Buck
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "I'm very damn wet!' he said aloud to the sundial."
I'm very damn wet!' he said aloud to the sundial. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy. C. S. Lewis
Shalt think otherwise when thou hast a man of thine own, I warrant you,' said the knight, apparently thinking this very funny. C. S. Lewis
Rumi quote: "All people on the planet are children, except for a very few...."
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. Rumi
when the years have all passed, there will gape the uncomfortable and unpredictable dark void of death, and into this I shall at last fall headlong, down and down and down, and the prospect of that fall, that uprooting, that rending apart of body and spirit, that taking off into so blank an unknown, drowns me in mortal fear and mortal grief. After all, life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and of... Rose Macaulay
Once there was a princess who was very beautiful. She shone bright as the stars on a moonless night. But what difference did it make that she was beautiful? None. No difference."Why did it make no difference?" asked Abilene. Because," said Pellegrina, "She was a princess who loved no one and cared nothing for love, even though there were many who loved her. Kate DiCamillo
If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do. Neal A. Maxwell
If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is... C. S. Lewis
Jan Morris quote: "Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that..."
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasureof a library lies in its very existence. Jan Morris
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. Edith Wharton

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