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It is the Lord’s work, and we are on the Lord’s errand, brethren, and we are entitled to the Lord’s help. Remember that the Lord will shape the back to bear the burden placed upon it.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have love you don’t need to have anything else. If you don’t have it it doesn’t matter much what else you do have.
Speaker: James M. BarriePosted: 27 Mar 2008 at 9:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Speaker: William of OccamSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Speaker: Thomas JeffersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
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That would totally make RedditSpeaker: Ivan and JohnSource: when seeing new user sign up via KissmetricsPosted: 07 Nov 2012 at 3:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“There are only three places to look. Science – and I was taught more about how the universe ticks while I was still in the nest than human scientists can yet handle. So much that I can’t talk to them, even about as elementary a gimmick as levitation. I’m not disparaging scientists. What they do is as it should be; I grok that fully. But what they are after is not what I am looking for – you don’t grok a desert by counting its grains of sand. Then there’s philosophy – supposed to tackle everything. Does it? All any philosopher comes out with is what he walked in with – except for self-deluders who prove their assumptions by their conclusions.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The perfect race car crosses the finish line in first place and then falls to pieces.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wrong-doing is the worst harm that can befall a wrong-doer (though not to be punished for wrong-doing is even worse, if any thing can be worse than the worst)…
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 6:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
With concerted effort, with recognition of the duty that falls upon each of us,… and with sincere prayer to the Lord for help, we could double that number [of baptisms].
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you work, work! When you study, study! When you pray, pray! Take it up a notch! Be bigger, better, older, bolder than you’ve ever been.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If nothing changes then nothing changes.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 26 Nov 2007 at 12:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My advice has always been: “You ought to be thrilled you got a job in the mailroom. And when you get there, here’s what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.”
No one wants to hear someone say: “I’m not good at sorting mail because the job is beneath me.” No job should be beneath us. And if you can’t (or won’t) sort mail, where is the proof that you can do anything?Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly companion; and so let all young person take their choice.
Speaker: William Makepeace ThackeraySource: Vanity Fair, Ch.2, pg. 23Posted: 10 May 2012 at 11:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are not called “human-doings,” but “human BEINGS.” It isn’t all the things that we are doing that make the difference; it is what we are becoming through those “doings” that count.
Speaker: Brad WilcoxSource: Education Week 2010Posted: 25 Aug 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I thought about the way so many of my friends bitched about their parents; they all seemed to think they were destroying their lives. I never felt like that. My parents were undoubtedly crazy, but they never did anything except make my life better. I was their seventh and final child, and they did not need this. To this day, I never want them to know anything about my life that makes me seem like the horrible person I truly am. In fact, the thought of them reading this book keeps me awake at night. It makes me want to get drunk.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Fargo Rock CityPosted: 08 Nov 2009 at 8:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
People just have no clue about their genuine nature. I have countless friends who describe themselves as “cynical,” and they’re all wrong. True cynics would never classify themselves as such, because it would mean that they know their view of the world is unjustly negative; despite their best efforts at being grumpy, a self-described cynic is secretly optimistic about normal human nature. Individuals who are truly cynical will always insist they’re pragmatic.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:06 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It was dropped on them from airplanes. Robots did the dropping. They had no conscience, and no circuits which would allow them to imagine what was happening to the people on the ground.
Trout’s leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes.’
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 7:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!