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Elections:Focus:Optimism:Christians:Planning:Com.
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"Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.." -Bill Stern-
"The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.".-Nadine Gordimer-
"Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.".-Agnes De Mille-
"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom;and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.".-Charles Horton Cooley
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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.".-Bertrand Russell-
"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.".-Blaise Pascal-
"With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.".-Adam Smith-
"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.".-Alan W. Watts-
"Reality is for people who can't face drugs.".-Laurence J. Peter-
"You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus.".-Mark Twain-
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.".-Colin Powell-
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this".-C. S. Lewis-
"How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.".-Karl Kraus-
"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.".-Winston Churchill-
"A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.".-Andrea Dworkin-
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.".-Bertrand Russell-
"What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.".-Arnold Palmer-
"Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. G".-Camille Paglia-
"Our desires always disappoint us;for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long;even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.".-Louisa May Alcott-
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.".-Karl Marx-
"Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative and it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we're to continue to grow.".-Lewis Lehr-
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.".-Zig Ziglar-
"As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities;so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.".-Akhenaton-
"The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.".-Anthony Robbins-
"To live in the present only is as unnatural as to live in solitude.".-C. Cooley-
More Quotes on Theater
"The argument between wives and whores is an old one;each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.".-Andrea Dworkin-
"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.".-Anthony Robbins-
"There can be economy only where there is efficiency.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.".-Alice Walker-
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"There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.." -Chris Patten-
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.".-Zig Ziglar-
"The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.".-Alfred Jarry-
"The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.".-O. S. Hawkins
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"Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.".-Florence Nightingale-
"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.".-Laurence Sterne-
"In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.".-Barbara de Angelis-
"Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.".-Lily Tomlin-
"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.".-Mark Twain-
"What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.".-Hermann Hesse-
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.".-Cyril Connolly-
"Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers".-Leo Rosten-
"Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage".-Zig Ziglar-
"There's no abiding success without commitment.".-Anthony Robbins-
"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.".-Colin Powell-
"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.".-Arthur Miller-
"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
"Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.".-Nathaniel P. Willis-
"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.".-Og Mandino-
"If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.".-Norman Augustine-
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...".-B. C. Forbes-
"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism;he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.".-August Strindberg-
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.".-Francis Bacon-
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"One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.".-Anthony Robbins-
"It's the economy, stupid.".-Bill Clinton-
"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.".-Alice Walker-
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