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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. Niccolo Machiavelli

Good You Every State States Ancient Follow Composite Laws Main New Well Arms Without Inevitably Where Cannot Foundations

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Noah Webster

War Bible Injustice Oppression Crime Men Ambition Precepts Neglecting Evils Miseries Contained Vice Proceed Which Suffer Slavery

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Wise Men Fools Way Wise Men Know Same Controversy

Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you. Om Malik

Life Smile Family You Soul Strangers Everyone Our Those Station Laugh Colleagues Finding Ability Sharing Discovering Friends Begins Same Listen Human Just Being Being Human Your Who Including

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. Orison Swett Marden

Kindness Man Welfare Will Power Manners Others Though Absent Unselfishness He Feels Polished Genuinely Privilege Gracious Goes May Influence Wherever Interested Who Even Elevating Presence

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good. Orison Swett Marden

Good Blessing Soul Happy Sunshine Power Evidence See Spirit Windows Only Gladness Throws Open Unspeakable Cheerful Inestimable Doing Doing Good Who Letting Wide Presenting

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. P. G. Wodehouse

Hair Invented Only Cure Gray Gray Hair

Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help. Patrick Lencioni

Service Leadership Needs Mistakes Weaknesses Ability About More Powerful Attribute Talking Client Genuinely Than Whether Help Teamwork Honest

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior. Ray Bradbury

Life Myself Day Happy Every Day Writing Joy Result Behavior My Life Mirror Every Back Later Only Looked Occasionally Answer Years Optimal Wonder Optimistic Person Worked Happy Person Creating Each Each Day Found Why Staring Image

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic. Richard Corliss

You Worth Word Responsibility Broad Definition Exact Narrow Ironic Irony Current Being Meaning Meaning Of Euphemism Sarcasm Sarcastic Using Hardly

Life is too short to be miserable. Rita Mae Brown

Life Life Is Too Short Miserable Too Short

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. Robert Anton Wilson

Love You Big Small Allow Annoy What You Love Precisely

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Legal Lawyer Compromise Cheapest

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. Robert Louis Stevenson

You Will Long Before Think Tell Dogs Any Heaven Us

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. Robin Marantz Henig

Exaggeration Words Denial Language Shade Collusion Count Self-Deception According Different Deception Meaning English English Language Each

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. Roger de Rabutin

Love Great Wind Fire Small Absence To Love

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Rudyard Kipling

Mom Worth Mother Ounce Pound Clergy

My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going. Sean Hannity

Life Me Ride Gift My Life Blessed Imagination Wildest Has-Been Point Takes Beyond Been Up Going Where Wherever

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them. Sholom Aleichem

People World Thought Blessed Everything Honours Respects Bestowed Comprehend Given Never Envies Name Know Understand Been Hands Taught Anything Anywhere Them Fortunate Moment Who Beings

All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir

War Oppression State Creates

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir

Love Truth Myself Me Through Safe Comfort Rewarded Certainties Away

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