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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes
Needs
Sense
Nothing
Distributed
More
No-One
He
Fairly
Than
Common
Common Sense
Thinks
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Richard M. Nixon
Leader
Individual
Never
He
Stood
Controversial
Anything
Wants
Means
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.
Robert Baden-Powell
Obedience
Obey
First
Own
Must
He
Put
First Place
His
Scout
Authority
Duties
Orders
Place
Second
Desires
Amusement
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost
Funny
Man
Funny Thing
Worry
Earth
Married
About
Wedding
He
Off
Goes
Gets
Anything
Thing
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Strength
Man
Eyes
Superior
Bending
Others
Weak
Above
Superior Man
Rises
Lifting
He
Blind
Fallen
Shield
Erect
Providence
Inferior
Stands
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
Rodney Dangerfield
Me
Uncle
Wish
He
His
Wanted
Dying
Electric
Lap
Chair
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Rose Kennedy
Life
Death
God
Myself
Respect
Intelligence
Gift
Inspire
Beauty
Gave
Back
Tell
Gifts
Spirit
Only
He
Make
Friends
Children
Length
Capacity
Held
Many
A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
Salman Khan
Lion
Hungry
Runs
He
Fastest
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler
Food
Man
Animal
Eat
Eats
Only
Remain
He
Until
Terms
Friendly
Victims
Them
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
Simon Cowell
Work
Best
Me
You
Patience
Work Hard
Be Patient
Advice
Patient
Gave
He
Put
Hours
Said
Hard
Dad
Ever
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Will
Made
Power
Destroy
Fact
Point
He
Him
Terrifying
Always
Idols
However
His
Subordinate
May
Them
Why
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard
Man
Nothing
Every
He
Know
Becoming
How
Doing
Getting
Afraid
Which
Capable
Much
Every Man
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. Jerome
You
Devil
Find
He
Calls
Occupied
May
Whenever
Engaged
Ever
So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
T. D. Jakes
Life
God
Me
Thought
My Life
Submit
Gave
Way
Though
Would
Brought
Purpose
Could
He
Him
His
Handle
Thank
Sovereignty
Done
Many
Differently
Things
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Thomas Aquinas
God
Prayer
Man
Will
Wills
Only
Shall
He
Clear
Him
Himself
Does
Pray
Stir
Uplifting
Far
Us
Lower
Persuade
Requires
Who
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
Work
Lie
Will
Excellence
He
Does
Test
Goes
Artist
Which
Produces
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
Man
Science
Every
Universe
Those
System
Only
He
Make
Principles
Governed
Discover
Fixed
Cannot
Which
Them
Basis
A Supreme Court justice needs to understand that he is not a politician. He needs to understand that the judiciary is a passive branch of government. His decisions should not proactively seek to set policy.
Thomas Rex Lee
Government
Needs
Justice
Judiciary
Politician
Seek
He
Supreme
Supreme Court
Policy
Supreme Court Justice
Court
Understand
Passive
His
Branch
Decisions
Should
Set
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
Tom Waits
You
Build
Building
Become
Stalking
Carefully
Saw
Kind
Nest
Someone
Crow
He
Know
Him
Vulnerable
Very
Just
Place
Which
Them
Aware
Watching
A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'
Tommy Cooper
Dog
Looking
Walks
Thanks
Starts
Guide
Says
Out
He
Head
Picks
Blind
Calls
Around
His
Bloke
Up
Sir
Shop
Just
Just Looking
Help
Swinging
Assistant
Even in the tough times, He's still a good God.
Victoria Osteen
God
Good
Tough Times
Tough
He
Still
Times
Even
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
Viktor E. Frankl
Human Being
Become
Unless
No-One
He
Him
Another
Very
Essence
Human
Being
Loves
Fully
Aware
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite
Life
Success
Game
Everything
Give
He
Becoming
Got
Person
Who
Imagine
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
Walter Matthau
Me
Doctor
Pay
Live
Gave
Months
More
He
Six
Bill
Medical
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
Will Rogers
Time
Dog
Down
Bone
Out
He
Make
Got
Go
Gets
Bigger
Payment
Now
Save
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
William Golding
Life
Journey
Man
Will
Bicycle
Fall
Some
Point
He
Like
Know
Does
Got
Off
Get
Move
Stop
Stops
Moving
Riding
Started
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