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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.
The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.
To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.
When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.
We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in the darkness.
It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'
You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.
The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.
The kids I talk to are readers, and the craziest, the most dedicated readers you will ever see.
What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.
God is always near His people, but their sinful behavior may cause His presence to be grievous.
God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.
Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ.
His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.
I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own.
I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.
Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)
Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God's forgiveness even more.
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.
Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.
Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.
When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
What's the point? was my attitude. We're all just going to die and then NOT be let on the boat.
Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.
If you want to write, find your splinter. Find the thing that pierces you and won't let you go.
In a world of oversharing, we don't want to be unknown or unseen. We don't want to be left out.
She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.