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Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (384 ratings) · submitted 1997

All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (894 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (1071 ratings) · submitted 1999

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (391 ratings) · submitted 1997

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (381 ratings) · submitted 1997

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Rudyard Kipling, in Success and Failure

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (403 ratings) · submitted 1997

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (424 ratings) · submitted 1997

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (1108 ratings) · submitted 1997

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.

Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Science and Religion

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (483 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (331 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Cousteau, in Life and Death

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (491 ratings) · submitted 1997

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

Dyer, in Work and Recreation

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (572 ratings) · submitted 1997

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (766 ratings) · submitted 1997

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue

Comment# · ★★☆☆ Fair (1391 ratings) · submitted 1997

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

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