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In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as ‘too long.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

That made clear to me the continuum that stretches from minor social minor to violent silencing and violent death (and I think we would understand misogyny and violence against women even better if we looked at the abuse of power as a whole rather than treating domestic violence separately from rape and murder and harrassment and intimidation, online at home and in the workplace and in the streets; seen together, the pattern is clear). Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Action achieves ambition.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone’s hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your family, or your adoption as a child.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the intrepid spirits whom share the present as well as with those souls whom are not yet born.

In a democracy government is the God.

If she says goodbye, someone else will say hi.

It is the sweat of the servants that make their squire look smart.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

Nature a, (ce crains-je) elle mesme attaché à l'homme quelque instinct à l'inhumanité

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.

Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy’s thoughts to his father’s glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions using the tokens. They were hard and round and very thin, made of copper or brass. There were counters for one pair of gloves, and for two pairs, and three and four and five. But there was no counter for zero. No counters existed for all the sales that his father did not close.

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

Some people are so sexually unattractive that the thought of masturbating turns them off.

All worries are less with wine.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

It's rare that anyone says what this medical study does, even if in the driest way possible "Being male has been identified as a risk factor for violent criminal behavior in several studies, as have exposure to tobacco smoke before birth, having antisocial parents, and belonging to a poor family". It's not that I want to pick on men. I just think that if we noticed that women are, on the whole, radically less violent, we might be able to theorize where violence come from and what we can do about it a lot more productively. Clearly the ready availability of guns is a huge problem for United States, but despite this availability to everyone, murder is still a crime committed by men 90 percent of the time.

A good food is mouthwatering when you see it and finger licking when you eat it.

Coco Chanel is said to have said that a girl should be two things: who and what she is. I say a girl should do two things: what and who she wants.

A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?

Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.

[The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I’m carrying piping hot coffee.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

Je hay entre autres vices, cruellement la cruauté, et par nature et par jugement, comme l'extreme de tous les vices.

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.

We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.

The principal advantage of narrative writing is that it assists us place our life experiences in a storytelling template. The act of strict examination forces us to select and organize our past. Narration provides an explanatory framework. Human beings often claim to understand events when they manage to formulate a coherent story or narrative explaining what factors caused a specific incident to occur. Stories assist the human mind to remember and make decisions based on informative stories. Narrative writing also prompts periods of intense reflection that leads to more writing that is ruminative. Contemplative actions call for us to track the conscious mind at work rendering an accounting of our weaknesses and our strengths, folly and wisdom.

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

Dresses don't look beautiful on hangers.

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.

No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.