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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
Thankful
Politics
Me
World
Be Thankful
Something
Sin
Sorrow
Always
Am
Republican
Rejoice
I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.
Pablo Neruda
Nature
You
Spring
Trees
Does
Cherry
Want
Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
Patricia Cornwell
Success
Hope
Survival
Revenge
Only
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
Art
Nature
Patient
Medicine
Consists
Cures
Disease
While
Amusing
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis
Leadership
Reality
Vision
Capacity
Translate
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Great
Danger
Never
Without
Achieved
Anything
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
Inspirational
Wonderful
World
Wait
Single
Before
Nobody
Single Moment
How
Improve
Moment
Starting
Need
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams
Service
You
Integrity
Money
Add
Must
Give
Something
Bought
Sincerity
Real
Cannot
Which
Measured
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Difficult
Christianity
Has-Been
Tried
Been
Wanting
Found
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Quality
Reward
Own
Give
Without
Any
Notice
Special
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire
Appreciation
Wonderful
Others
Excellent
Well
Makes
Wonderful Thing
Us
Thing
Belong
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
Government
History
Approaching
Darkest
Free
Stage
Rule
Pleases
Citizens
Only
Inversion
Brute
Brute Force
Periods
Force
Permission
Ultimate
May
Human
Where
Anything
Which
While
Human History
Act
Fast
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard
Success
Laughed
He
Well
Often
Achieved
Loved
Worked
Much
Who
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
Isabel Allende
War
Strength
Survival
People
Strong
Amazing
Awesome
Hidden
Know
Until
Forced
Renewal
How
Amazing Things
Tragedy
Times
Human
Human Capacity
Capacity
Forward
Even
Things
Bring
Necessity
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
People
Conservative
Political
Liberal
Those
Criteria
Divides
Never
Democrat
Controlled
Politically
Human
Want
Race
Forth
Communist
Who
Human Race
Fascist
Populist
Basic
Desire
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Reward
Release
Only
Effort
Person
Quit
Refuses
After
Fully
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
Government
Best
Evil
State
Intolerable
Worst
Even
Necessary
Necessary Evil
Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.
Melody Beattie
Balance
Stress
Mind
Live
Others
State
Our
Unnecessary
Responsible
Restore
More
Take
Go
Off
Hands
Situations
Themselves
Us
Helps
Peaceful
Letting
Letting Go
Belong
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Denis Waitley
Moving On
Moving Forward
Focus
Spend
Finding
Wrong
Instead
Toward
Answer
Dwell
Energies
Moving
Next
Your
Forward
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Laurence J. Peter
Funny
Try
Three
Wrongs
Make
Right
Two
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
H. L. Mencken
Time
Better
Those
Immorality
Morality
Having
Better Time
Who
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Napoleon Hill
You
Opportunity
Big
Big Opportunity
May
Where
Your
Now
Right
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo Machiavelli
You
Better
Feared
Both
Than
Loved
Cannot
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin
Good
Nature
Rain
Sunshine
Weather
Wind
Different Kinds
Bad
Kinds
Only
Delicious
Bad Weather
Braces
Exhilarating
Up
Snow
Refreshing
Different
Us
Really
Thing
No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good.
Josh McDowell
Death
Future
Good
You
Matter
Promises
Face
Pain
Our
Immeasurable
Temporary
Only
Struggles
Resurrection
Troubles
Devastating
Disappointments
How
Tragedy
Loved
Loved Ones
Happens
Depth
Your
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
Life
Good
Manners
Society
Back
Back Up
Armed
Polite
His
Up
May
Acts
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