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There are times when you have to ch…

3 Jul , 2015  

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertolt Brecht , German Communist & dramatist (1898 – 1956)

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This time, like all times, is a ver…

17 Apr , 2013  

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)

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Though ambition itself be a vice, y…

24 May , 2012  

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. Great short quote and quotation by: Quintilian , Roman rhetorician

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Times of general calamity and confu…

13 Oct , 2011  

Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Caleb Colton , (1780 – 1832)

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R. A. Salvatore, Siege of Darkness

To any intelligent being, there is …

13 Oct , 2011  

To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be… It is at those times […]

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Truth is so obscure in these times …

5 Aug , 2011  

Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it. Great short quote and quotation by: Blaise Pascal , French mathematician, physicist (1623 – 1662)

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Dogen Zenji

Understand clearly that when a grea…

4 Aug , 2011  

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof. Great short quote and quotation by: Dogen Zenji ,

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Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005

Watch for good times to retreat int…

15 Feb , 2011  

Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you. Great short quote and quotation by: Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005 , German mystic & religious author (1380 – 1471)

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Jimmy Carter, in his farewell address

We live in a time of transition, an…

15 Feb , 2011  

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. […]

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James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

We spend most of our time and energ…

15 Feb , 2011  

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things?[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. Great short […]

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Whatever you are from nature, keep …

15 Feb , 2011  

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing. Great short quote and quotation by: Sydney Smith , English essayist (1771 – 1845)

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Jacob Riis

When nothing seems to help, I go an…

15 Feb , 2011  

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all […]

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