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post #661 of 1694
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When you look into evil it also looks into you.
post #662 of 1694
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson
post #663 of 1694
"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live." Omar N. Bradley
post #664 of 1694
The wisest of people in this world are those that admit when they are wrong.
post #665 of 1694
Never be first, never be last, never volunteer.
post #666 of 1694
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Sometimes silence can speak louder than words.
post #667 of 1694
I moaned because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
post #668 of 1694
"Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not." Lord David Cecil
post #669 of 1694
If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
post #670 of 1694
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
post #671 of 1694
I moaned because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.
post #672 of 1694
He who calls the tune, pays the piper.
post #673 of 1694
"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and good and dwell as little as possible on the dark and the base." Lord David Cecil
post #674 of 1694
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Promises mean everything, but after they are broken, sorry means nothing.
post #675 of 1694
" If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas."---Jean Cocteau
post #676 of 1694
"To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool." Lord David Cecil
post #677 of 1694
An army marches on it’s stomach.
post #678 of 1694
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The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.
post #679 of 1694
Opportunities are seldom labeled.
post #680 of 1694
"Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions." Gilbert K. Chesterton
post #681 of 1694
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Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

Bruce Lee
post #682 of 1694
Locks keep honest people honest.
post #683 of 1694
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." Gilbert K. Chesterton
post #684 of 1694
"A person with no forgiveness in heart is living worse punishment than death."

- Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid Part 3
post #685 of 1694
LEARN from yesterday, LIVE for today, and HOPE for tomorrow.
post #686 of 1694
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Don't think outside the box...Think like there is no box.
post #687 of 1694
Whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad.
post #688 of 1694
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude." Gilbert K. Chesterton
post #689 of 1694
A winner is a loser who never gave up.
post #690 of 1694
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Knowledge talks, Wisdom listens.
post #691 of 1694
Better slow going somewhere than fast going nowhere.
post #692 of 1694
The most wasted day of all, is the one in which we have not laughed.
post #693 of 1694
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." Gilbert K. Chesterton
post #694 of 1694
the person who talks trash about other people when they aren't around talks trash about you when you're not around
post #695 of 1694
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Originally Posted by dollars&scents View Post

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." Gilbert K. Chesterton

Absolutely love this quote!

Here is mine for the day:

"Without suffering, there is no growth; and without joy, there would be no reason for growth."
-Clemmont E. Vontress
post #696 of 1694
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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
post #697 of 1694
"The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it." Gilbert K. Chesterton
post #698 of 1694
Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.
post #699 of 1694
To keep ourselves from going insane we must keep a small part of insanity with us - My love intrest (though she doesn't know it...yet)
post #700 of 1694
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein
post #701 of 1694
Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong??
post #702 of 1694
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
post #703 of 1694
"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are." Gilbert K. Chesterton
post #704 of 1694
When death smiles at us, all we can do is smile back
post #705 of 1694
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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"If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride." Gilbert K. Chesterton
post #707 of 1694
Failure is no crime, too low an aim is.
post #708 of 1694
The only thing in life that is certian, is the uncertiantly on life - Me
post #709 of 1694
"When God created everything else, it was 'good.' When He created man, it was 'very good.'" - Mark Driscoll
*"And, in fact, the ONLY thing that wasn't good was man alone." - My brother
post #710 of 1694
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Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
post #711 of 1694
"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged." Gilbert K. Chesterton
post #712 of 1694
Don’t change horses in midstream.
post #713 of 1694
"The Bible is not preeminently concerned with telling us how the heavens go. The Bible is, instead, most concerned with telling us how to go to Heaven." - Galileo
post #714 of 1694
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The heart is wiser than the intellect.
post #715 of 1694
"There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect." Gilbert K. Chesterton
post #716 of 1694
The eyes are the windows to the soul.
post #717 of 1694
People like to talk sh-- in New Jersey because if it were the streets of New York, they would get punched in the face.
post #718 of 1694
When in doubt, pinky out.
post #719 of 1694
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
post #720 of 1694
"An undutiful child (daughter) will prove an unmanageable adult (wife)"

-Benjamin Franklin (original words in parentheses; emphasis mine)
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