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As effective as a one legged man in a butt-kicking contest.
Speaker: On Slashdot.org web sitePosted: 29 Nov 2007 at 2:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the RingsPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I enjoy reading the leaflets that come with medication, the respite provided by the precision of each technical term, which convey the illusion of meticulousness and a frisson of simplicity, and elicit a spatiotemporal dimension free of any striving for beauty, creative angst or the never-ending and hopeless aspiration to attain the sublime.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you’re asking ‘why should I’ instead of ‘how can I,’ you’re asking the wrong questions.
Speaker: David H. BurtonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No great cause ever succeeded without great effort.
Speaker: Joseph B. WirthlinPosted: 27 Feb 2008 at 9:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is only one way on God’s green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them – and forgetting them.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Speaker: Aldous HuxleyPosted: 08 May 2008 at 8:27 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men will work hard for money. [Men] will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause… Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.
Speaker: Harry Emerson FosdickPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The definition of genealogy: Chasing your own tale.
Posted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we came from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.”
Speaker: Alex HaleyPosted: 06 Nov 2011 at 9:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Speaker: Michael JordanPosted: 09 Jun 2009 at 9:18 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellSource: http://zenhabits.net/own/Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 6:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Remember that the best teachers not only teach a subject— they convey principles of living through a subject.
Speaker: Dan MillmanPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What a man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
Speaker: Viktor FranklSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not wish to be anything but what you are – and try to be that perfectly.
Speaker: Francis de SalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:13 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Trees that can withstand the hurricane sometimes yield to destroying pests that can scarcely be seen except with the aid of a microscope. Likewise, the greatest foes of the individual are not always the glaring evils of humanity but subtle influences of thought and of continual association with companions.
Speaker: David O. McKayPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:25 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!