Birth

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  • Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now.
        Dag Hammarskjold   Best?
  • When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father.
        Austin L. Sorensen   Best?
  • Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
        Marcus Aurelius Antoninus   Best?
  • Existence precedes and rules essence.
        Jean-Paul Sartre   Best?
  • Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
        Henri-Frédéric Amiel   Best?
  • Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
        Rudyard Kipling   Best?
  • For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.
        Bhagavad Gita   Best?
  • If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
        Clement Freud   Best?
  • Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Strain every nerve to gain your point.
        Cicero   Best?
  • A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
        Ogden Nash   Best?
  • You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
        Mary Pickford   Best?
  • Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
        Archimedes   Best?
  • God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
        Reinhold Niebuhr   Best?
  • The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.
        Henry Royce   Best?
  • How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?
        Norman Maclean   Best?
  • When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
        Maya Angelou   Best?
  • As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • He plants trees to benefit another generation.
        Caecilius Statius   Best?
  • Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
        Homer   Best?
  • Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
        Andy Rooney   Best?
  • CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
  • For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.
        Pooh's Little Instruction Book   Best?
  • And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first--an attempted suicide.
        Chris Hubbock   Best?
  • Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • SYMBOL, n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" -- things which having no longer any utility continue to exist because we have inherited the tendency to make them; as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. They were once real urns holding the ashes of the dead. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up the fight.
        Bob Marley   Best?
  • As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
        Mary Howitt   Best?
  • Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.
        Bartholomew   Best?
  • Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
        Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
  • I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?

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