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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Game
Daring
Winning
Beaten
Like
Ideas
May
Moved
Forward
Start
I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.
John Bolton
Work
Government
People
Some People
National
Field
Think
Positions
Our
Say
States
Security
Must
Find
Some
Entirely
Absolutely
Clearance
Sure
How
Making
Been
Subject
National Security
Essential
May
Procedures
Irritating
Sensitive
Them
Loyal
Who
Many
United
United States
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr
War
Destruction
Fear
Hatred
First
Wish
Those
Destroy
Mad
Propaganda
Neurosis
Well
Make
Said
Stirred
Up
Gods
May
Prelude
Whom
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan
Happiness
Peace
Joy
Combined
Make
Without
May
Two
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
John D. Rockefeller
Life
Success
Wisdom
Matter
Aim
Purpose
Chief
May
Essentials
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay
Worse
Foe
Pretended
Open
Prove
Friend
May
Curse
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
John Heywood
Those
Admire
May
Us
Who
Agree
Right
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, 'convulsions of nature,' etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God's love.
John Muir
Love
God
Nature
Song
First
Creation
Every
Harmonious
Earthquakes
Sight
Seem
Lawless
Varied
Only
Mysterious
Sort
However
May
Storms
Etc
Notes
Expressions
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
John Muir
Man
Heart
People
Water
Churches
Temple
Well
Cathedrals
Tanks
Been
May
Holier
Ever
Consecrated
Dam
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
John Ruskin
Success
Work
Be Happy
Happy
People
Too Much
Three
Sense
Too
Must
Fit
May
Order
Much
Things
Needed
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre
Wise
Experience
Old
Parents
Become
Otherwise
Monsters
Monstrous
Our
Neither
Detachment
Pretend
Fade
Cheat
Reach
However
May
Childhood
Regarding
Plane
Wholly
Away
Ever
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial?
Jose Rizal
World
Citizen
Trial
Trifling
Through
Anonymous
Without
Hearing
Traitors
Reports
Any
Banished
May
Confidential
Means
Use
Reasons
Codes
Honest
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Joseph Conrad
Revolution
Humane
Unselfish
Leaders
Noble
Devoted
Passes
Begin
Intelligent
May
Just
Movement
Victims
Them
Natures
Away
It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
Karl Barth
God
Together
Bach
About
Angels
Only
Sure
Am
Praising
Go
However
Task
May
Mozart
Play
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx
Machines
Weapon
Employed
Said
Were
Quell
Labor
Revolt
May
Capitalists
Specialized
Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.
L. Lionel Kendrick
Communicate
Father
Our
Directions
Voice
Prophets
Through
Divine
Come
Revelation
Lord
Revelations
May
Heavenly
Heavenly Father
Personally
Us
Communications
Chosen
Servants
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
Learned Hand
History
Cause
Devil
Doubt
No Doubt
Support
Any
May
Quote
Quotes
Scripture
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
Too Late
Wait
Try
Long
Sit
Satisfied
Too
Else
Late
Something
Something Else
Uncertainties
Over
Until
Up
May
Just
Anything
Screw
Start
My advice for girls who are waiting for their Prince Charming is to be open for anything. Be open to new experiences, be open to the idea that it may take longer than you want, but if you're open to meeting new people and new adventures, then love will come along.
Lily Collins
Love
You
Waiting
People
Will
Girl
Advice
Meeting
Charming
Take
Open
Idea
Longer
Adventures
New
Along
Come
Prince
Prince Charming
New People
Than
May
Want
Experiences
Anything
Then
Who
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Heart
Discipline
Evil
Human Heart
Propensity
Powerful
Subdued
May
Human
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard
Truth
Right Thing
Correct
Easy
Always
May
Politically
Politically Correct
Convenient
The Right Thing
Stand
Right
Thing
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man
Age
Youth
Old
Mind
Pleased
Rule
Approve
Follows
Something
Never
He
Him
Am
May
Old Man
Body
Less
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom
Knowledge
Justice
Rather
Divorced
Cunning
Than
May
Which
I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.
Margaret Atwood
People
Way
Characterization
Never
Bought
Individuals
Particular
Particular Way
Sort
Yes
Expected
Any
Going
May
Mean
Hard
Fast
We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
Marianne Williamson
People
Weather
Sun
Sun Shines
Bad
Bad Weather
Shines
Ireland
Hearts
May
Warm
Us
Keeps
Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.
Mark Hyman
You
Matter
Healthy
More
Networks
Habits
Genetic
Likely
Well
Friends
Than
Get
May
Social
Your
Social Networks
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