Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken. ~Idries Shah
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. ~John C. Maxwell
If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it. ~Jerome Singer
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. ~Arthur Helps, Essays Written in Intervals of Business, 1841
Don't think you're on the right road just because it?s a well-beaten path. ~Author Unknown
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. ~Edwin Keith
I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. ~Oscar Wilde
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. ~John Lancaster Spalding
The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad! ~Richard Feynman
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. ~Carrie Latet
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. ~Don Marquis
Campers: Nature's way of feeding mosquitoes. ~Author Unknown
To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ~Author Unknown
I don't think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. ~John Gould
Ironically, making a statement with words is the least effective method. ~Grey Livingston
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. ~Agnes Repplier
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. ~Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume. ~John Van Druten I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you. ~Margi Clark
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. ~Bertrand Russell
Faith is never identical with piety. ~Karl Barth
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