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~ A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life. ~

Mark Twain

~ To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. ~

Ogden Nash

~ If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. ~

Lord Chesterfield

~ The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. ~

George Santayana

~ Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage ~

Muslih-uddin Sadi

~ Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. ~

Felix Adler

~ The ethics of excellence require a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment, do you mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk . . . and lose the bet? ~

Price Pritchett

~ It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare ~

Mark Twain

~ When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose. ~

Printers\' Ink

~ Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~

Elise Boulding

~ Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~

Dorothy Bernard

~ Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ~

Leonard Cohen

~ Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. ~

Eleanor Roosevelt

~ Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. ~

F. Scott Fitzgerald

~ Christmas is the time for looking ahead courageously through the gates of the swiftly approaching new year ... of resolving that the coming months will reflect a kinder, more forgiving and less heedless person than mirrored in the past. ~

Ellen V. Morgan

~ It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people. ~

Anton Balasingham

~ As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. ~

Paul Keating

~ When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. ~

Warren Buffett

~ Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. ~

John Erskine

~ Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. ~

William Congreve

~ Music is the universal language of mankind ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ Music is the universal language of mankind ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ Music is the soul of language. ~

Max Heindel

~ Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. ~

Voltaire

~ Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign language ~

Dave Barry

~ Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms ~

James Madison

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