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"Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable? Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic? The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." Henry Anatole Grunwald 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe." Henry Anatole Grunwald 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Inflation continues till common man is completely sucked out of money, then recession sets in and continues till he becomes suckable again." B. J. Gupta 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability." Robert Half 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists." Calvin S. Hall Rate this Quote
"Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence." Margaret Halsey 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." Alexander Hamilton 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated." Edith Hamilton 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 2.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 4.7692 average rating Rate this Quote
"Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred?' And they'll say, 'Fred who?' And you say, 'Fred of snakes?' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 4.3571 average rating Rate this Quote
"If someone told me it wasn't 'fashionable' to talk about freedom, I think I'd just have to look him square in the eye and say, 'Okay, YOU TELL ME what's `fashionable'.' But he won't. And you know why? Because you can't ask someone what's fashionable in a smart-alecky way like that. You have to be friendly and say, 'By the way, what's fashionable?'" Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes?" Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable---until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!" Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 4.4545 average rating Rate this Quote
"Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 3.5556 average rating Rate this Quote
"Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not! ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind." John W. Hanley 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others." Sydney J. Harris 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational." Sydney J. Harris 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it." Sydney J. Harris Rate this Quote
"Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace. We all desire to have more joy in our Christian life. The keys to experiencing joy are available to all of us. We need to understand the gospel of the grace of God as revealed to the Apostle Paul. Then as we put Paul's instructions into practice, we will come to know God experientially. This will cause us to know Him better which will cause us to want to obey more, and on and on it goes. Then as we learn and obey God and become focused on spiritual things instead of earthly things, we will become thankful for everything that God has provided for us in Christ. Knowledge, obedience, and thankfulness will then lead to abundant joy in our everyday life! In the words of the old hymn: Trust and obey, For there's no other way, To be happy in Jesus, But to trust and obey." David Havard 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
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