Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
Ben Stein
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"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide
what you want."
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Congregated here are quotes found through an extensive research process outlined as follows. Throughout any regular day, while browsing the internet for whatever reason, one may stumble upon a good quote and say "wow, that's profound." Those I find worthwhile or funny are posted here.
Politics I suppose to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much --the wheel, New York, wars and so on-- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy man. He will find an easier way to do it.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.
Just an interesting observation ... in an observationally interesting kind of way.
An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.