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Sydney Harris


The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill


It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Saadi


Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Author Unknown


Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Harry Emerson Fosdick


God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death"


And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh


Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Norman R. Augustine


I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Orison Swett Marden


Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Kahlil Gibran


Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I think my favorite monster movie is 'Gone With the Wind', because it has that ear monster and that big-dress monster.

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