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teaching character thinking
We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something. Oswald Chambers
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men goes-on prometheus
And man will go on. Man, not men. Ayn Rand
men years advice
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. Calvin Coolidge
men happiness-and-success foundation
The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life. Richard G. Scott
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith
men adjusting faces
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role. Sandra Ford
men mind sides
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. Anna Jameson
men childhood pay
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. Anna Jameson
order literature realism
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. Christopher Morley
order done causes
More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament. Alva Myrdal
order smell vampire
Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good. Anne Rice
order bored bores
Tallulah [Bankhead] never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed. Anita Loos
order games scary
To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the projects that would lead to future growth in order to drop money to the bottom line. This is HP's dilemma today. Once a company's growth has stopped, the game as we have known it is over. It's a scary thing. Clayton Christensen
order space mind
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit. Clayton Christensen
order people annoyed
When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface. Daniel Keyes
order recollection
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat Clifton Fadiman
order democracy too-much
In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much. Clarence Darrow