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~ All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ~


~ To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ~


~ A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. ~


~ The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it. ~


~ Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. ~


~ What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life ~


~ Awareness is empowering. ~


~ The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ~


~ Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. ~


~ Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good. ~


~ One should eat to live, not live to eat. ~


~ God in His goodness sent the grapes, to cheer both great and small; little fools will drink too much, and great fools not at all. ~


~ Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. ~


~ Good wine ruins the purse; bad wine ruins the stomach ~


~ Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life ~


~ Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. ~


~ We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added ~


~ The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. ~


~ We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it ~


~ The root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies ~


~ A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom ~


~ Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ~


~ We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow ~


~ Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions ~


~ Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. ~


~ Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong ~


~ A cock, having found a pearl, said that a grain of corn would be of more value to him ~


~ We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness ~


~ Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend ~


~ Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there ~


~ Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action. ~


~ He who's not busy being born is busy dying ~


~ A well-aimed spear is worth three. ~


~ Make your life a mission - not an intermission. ~


~ A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~


~ A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~


~ Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~


~ Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ~


~ When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set ~


~ Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine ~


~ Shame is pride's cloak. ~


~ Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known ~


~ It is the conduct of any man to struggle and fall; it is the conduct of great men to rise and soar. ~


~ The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. ~


~ A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. ~


~ The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. ~


~ Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. ~


~ In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ~


~ If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. ~


~ The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. ~


~ Necessity, the mother of invention. ~


~ Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. ~


~ Conscience is a man's compass ~


~ Chance favors those in motion. ~


~ Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~


~ It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. ~


~ Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~


~ Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ~


~ The secret to success is constancy to purpose. ~


~ Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose. ~



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