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"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable."

Havner, Vance on adversity
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."

Yeats, William Butler on planning
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"In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead."

Fromm, Erich on present    Share

"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it."

Fromm, Erich on time
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"A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but."

Berger, John on animals    Share

"If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot."

Cioran, E. M. on self-image
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"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

Frost, Robert on god
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"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Frost, Robert on law and lawyers
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on death
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Frost, Robert on life
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"Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich."

Frost, Robert on nationalities and nationalism
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"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense."

Frost, Robert on nonsense
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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."

Frost, Robert on secrets
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"Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything."

Doudan, X. on individuality
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"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

Baruch, Bernard M. on age and aging
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"The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does."

Barres on politics
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"Our favorite attitude should be gratitude"

Ziglar, Zig on gratitude
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"You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have."

Ziglar, Zig on action
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"There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic."

Ziglar, Zig on criticism
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"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

Bishop, Jim on criticism
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"How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?"

Gaulle, Charles De on nations
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."

Churchill, Winston on nationalities and nationalism
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."

Ameringer, Oscar on politics
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"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."

Arbuthnot, John on politics
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I'm male, single from the United States and made my book on 6th December 2008.

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