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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson
Down Consequences Everybody Late Soon Banquet
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. Saint Patrick
Eyes Faithful Despised Most Am Least Sinner Many
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. Sean Connery
Love Ride World Worthwhile Must Admit Make Makes Go May Round
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle
Work Good Man Business Water Good Man Unknown Secretly Hidden Vein Like Underground Making Green Done Ground Flowing
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Thomas Carlyle
Great Ambition Boredom Rather Got Exhaustion Than Die
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle
Strong Weak Obstacle Became Block Pathway Which Granite
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. Thomas Carlyle
Man About Something Arguing Debating Man Lives Many Lives Believing Things
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Walter Scott
Truth Will Faithful Wreck Rusty Nail Placed Sway Compass Near
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Walter Scott
Nature You Fruit Will Spring Autumn Tree Unless Borne Look Blossoms
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. Adam Smith
Ought Sole Promoting Only Purpose Consumer Consumption Attended End May Interest Far Producer Production Necessary
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. Adam Smith
Virtue Feared More Excess Because Subject Than Vice Regulation Conscience
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. Alexander Graham Bell
Man Mind Power State Say Exactly Finds Exactly What Determined Only He Know Until Knows Becomes Exists Quit Wants Cannot Which Available Fully
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. Andrew Carnegie
Best Business Survival Competition Law Sometimes Every Individual Because Fittest Department May While Race Hard
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. Andrew Carnegie
Strong Men Strong Men Compromise Compromised Shall Argue Know Principle Principles Greater Serve
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately. Andrew Carnegie
Whatever Inordinately Must Push Engage
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. Craig Ferguson
Myself Me Worth Wait Think Alcohol Possibilities Minute Slowly Risk Dawned Got Doing Began Maybe Stop Stopped Sober
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. David Hume
Tomorrow Will Sun Rise More Proposition Implies Affirmation Contradiction Than Intelligible Less
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. David Russell
Physics World Live Ruled Frankenstein Logic
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. George MacDonald
Friendship Heart Gift Thought Giving Flower Would Would-Be Gem Angels Give Cast Instead Friend Loving Should Even
There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family. Gordon Ramsay
Time Family You Own Think Spend More Kitchen Chef Than Staff Your Among Bond
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over. Gordon Ramsay
You Game Ego Somebody Minute Compromising Over Sake Start
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. James Nasmyth
History Before Live Virtually Our Ancestors Born Begins Represent Influences Race Us Hereditary
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. Robert Burns
Fear To Be Honest Dare Labor Honest
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Robert Louis Stevenson
Great Weary Made Churches Favorite Kind Scenery Inspired Never Cathedral Mountain Happily Mankind
It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days. Saint Patrick
God Me Heart Grace Care Long Earnest Hunters Would Put Days Come Any Should Whom Last
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. Thomas Carlyle
Fight Enemy Victory Crown
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