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real deceit our-actions
Charles Caleb Colton The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real honest strategy
Charles Caleb Colton Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
real character mean
Charles Caleb Colton Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real home thinking
Charles Caleb Colton We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
real writing editing
Charles Caleb Colton Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
real heart optimistic
Charles Dickens Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
real words-of-wisdom quality
Charles Dickens A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.
real men soldier
Charles Studd It takes a real man to make a true confession-a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
war winning games
Charles Caleb Colton War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war thinking giving
Alan Watts We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot
war men people
Alan Moore Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
war men world
Alan Moore They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.
war responsibility power
Alan Moore Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.
war oil iraq
Alan Greenspan The Iraq War is largely about oil.
war oil iraq
Alan Greenspan I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
war world retrospect
Alan Greenspan The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
war believe iraq
Alan Colmes I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.