Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.[Dave Barry] Quote:Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.[Dave Barry] Quote:Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. This is because the Tokyo street system holds the world outdoor record for randomness. A map of Tokyo looks like a tub of hyperactive bait. There is virtually no street that goes directly from anywhere to anywhere.[Dave Barry] Quote:America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.[Laurence Peter] Quote:There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.[Thomas Paine] Quote:A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.[Adam Smith] Quote:To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.[John Milton] Quote:The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.[Earl Warren] Quote:The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. [E. M. Forster] Quote:For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is... [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. [Andre Gide] Quote:The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. [Albert Einstein] Quote:In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. [Peter Drucker] Definitions of: cordDefinition: A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.Definition: A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line. Definition: Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity. Definition: Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal. Definition: See Chord. |
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