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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
Future
Trust
Obligation
Faithful
Past
Owes
Despair
State
Those
Frankly
Gives
Inventory
Facts
He
Takes
His
Nor
Accounting
Prudent
Heir
Whom
Careful
It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
John Henry Newman
Gentleman
Pain
Say
Definition
Never
He
Almost
Who
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.
John Keats
Fears
Immortality
Follow
Voices
Crowned
Lead
He
Where
Who
MLK, Jr. taught me how to say no to segregation, and I can hear him saying now... when you straighten up your back, no man can ride you. He said stand up straight and say no to racial discrimination.
John Lewis
Saying
Me
You
Man
Ride
Back
Say
Segregation
He
Him
Said
How
Hear
Up
Discrimination
Taught
Straight
Straighten
Racial
Stand
Your
Stand Up
Now
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
John Locke
Truth
Man
Possession
One Thing
He
Put
Him
Another
Error
Show
Thing
God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
John Ortberg
God
Faith
Good
Character
People
Strong
Entrusted
He
Most
Disciples
Shepherd
His
Precious
Brave
Them
Ask
Us
Mold
Good Character
Treasure
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck
World
Illusion
Important
Believe
Must
Writer
He
True
Most
Most Important Thing
Knows
Important Thing
Doing
The Most Important
Hold
Even
Thing
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
John Wesley
Death
Alone
Me
Trust
Law
Christ
Saved
Assurance
Mine
Given
Had
He
Taken
Sin
Felt
Sins
Salvation
Did
Even
Away
He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti
Owes
Thief
He
Voters
Wrongfully
Office
Against
Them
Who
Uses
An ethical man doesn't need a consensus of his allies in order to act against something he finds reprehensible.
Joseph Brodsky
Man
Finds
Something
Allies
He
His
Reprehensible
Order
Against
Ethical
Act
Consensus
Need
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Joseph Stalin
He
Divisions
Got
How
Pope
Many
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth
Love
God
Man
Change
Hate
Hateful
Triumphs
He
Him
Opposite
His
Escape
Cannot
Which
Eternal
Eternal Love
Flee
Certainly
Even
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Karl Barth
God
Religion
Other
Recipes
Way
Give
He
Himself
Does
Teachers
Show
Jesus
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Karl Rahner
Future
Will
Christian
Mystic
He
Exist
I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?
Kristin Davis
Exhausted
Dating
He
Since
Been
Where
Fifteen
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Lady Bird Johnson
Art
Man
Soul
World
Immediate
Would
See
Able
Window
Could
Never
He
Beyond
Within
Without
His
Nor
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu
World
Flower
Else
Waving
Honored
Silent
Kinds
He
Head
Disappears
Like
Sage
Forest
Either
Career
Two
Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.
Lee Gutkind
Creative
Journalist
Approaches
Liberating
Writer
Writers
He
He Or She
True
Ideas
She
Genre
Non-Fiction
Because
True Story
Get
Essayist
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Fiction Writers
Story
Whether
Use
Techniques
Chance
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy
Style
Whatever
Wears
Never
He
Opinion
Just
Happens
Chooses
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
Leonardo da Vinci
World
Bird
First
Nest
Shall
Take
Writings
He
Glory
Amazement
His
Fame
Human
Whence
Eternal
Flight
Filling
Bringing
I went to the doctor last week. I said: 'Can I have some sleeping pills for the wife?' He said: 'Why?' I said: 'She's woke up.'
Les Dawson
Doctor
Wife
Sleeping
Some
Week
He
She
Said
Pills
Woke
Up
Why
Last
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Louis Pasteur
Me
Respect
Become
Approach
Inspires
Tenderness
He
Child
May
Sentiments
Two
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
Lucille Ball
Man
Woman
Age
Smart
Guesses
Correctly
He
Very
May
Who
Bright
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man
Action
Risk
He
Himself
Which
Urges
Who
Wary
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Man
Wind
Seeks
He
Knows
Any
Harbor
Right
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
Mahatma Gandhi
Great
Man
Power
Destiny
Only
Great Power
Allowed
He
True
Supposed
Make
Partly
Maker
His
Far
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