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-Stephen Nachmanovitch To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect ref reshment. -Jane Austen Humans are machines of interpretation and explanation; they have to know what yo u are thinking. -Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power. Nothing in fine print is ever good news. -Andy Rooney Be silent, or say something better than silence. -Pythagoras God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star. -Joaquin Miller Faith is obedience, nothing else. -Emil Brunner There is a weird power in a spoken word. -Joseph Conrad And a word carries farvery fardeals destruction through time as the bullets go fly ing through space. -Joseph Conrad Girdle the earth with your praises; surround it with an atmosphere of melody, an d God himself will hearken from heaven and accept your music. -Charles H. Spurg eon Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say - I will endure this until I can get away and pray. Pray now; draw on the grace of God in the m oment of need. Prayer is the most practical thing. -Oswald Chambers In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicl e for visiting other eras. -Tom Nolan Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones. -Proverb Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing pract ical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works so as positively to hinder futu re resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. -William James Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. -Bette Davis There come times, not so seldom with me at least, when I have nothing more to te ll God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I ha ve already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy p resence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy pr esence." -O. Hallesby Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation. -Goethe Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. -Hos ea Ballou Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, a nd on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habit s you aspire to gain. -William James Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. -Oliver Goldsmith Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the n ew has come! -The Bible, 2 Corinthians 5:17, NIV. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination -Oscar Wilde Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-w armed, and well-fed. -Herman Melville When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fr uit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should be siege them? However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees an d use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls. -The Bibl e, Deuteronomy 20:19-20, NIV. We are never deceived we deceive ourselves. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. -Oriental Proverb

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as oppo sed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. -Anatole B royard The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. -Bill Cosby There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong di rection; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies wi th you. -J. K. Rowling, The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination, June 5, 2008. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. -J. K. Rowling, The Fringe Benefits of Fail ure, and the Importance of Imagination, June 5, 2008. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. -Plutarch We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. -J. K. Rowling, The Fri nge Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination, June 5, 2008. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matter s. -Seneca If you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grai n. -The Bible, Deuteronomy 23:24-25, NIV. Do not have two differing weights in your bagone heavy, one light. Do not have tw o differing measures in your houseone large, one small. You must have accurate an d honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land the LORD yo ur God is giving you. -The Bible, Deuteronomy 25:13-15, NIV. I felt that poetry shouldnt be an escape from reality, but should be an immersion into reality. -Dannie Abse Self-interest is the lever that will move people. Once you can make them see how you can in some way meet their needs or advance their cause, the resistance to your requests for help will magically fall away. At each step on the way to acqu iring power, you must train yourself to think your way inside the other person's mind, to see their needs and interests, to get rid of the screen of your own fe elings that obscure the truth and there will be no limits to what you can accomp lish. -Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power. A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities. -Herman Melville