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“Strength is a shield, only to be lowered by trust.”

Wisdom Strength Trust Intelligent Insightful Tillie Cole Hades Hangmen

Book:Deep Redemption

Source: Deep Redemption

“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare -- or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad -- who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.”

Humor Insightful The Unexpected

Book:My Man Jeeves

Source: My Man Jeeves

“This thing we have, it's like throwing a tangled chain into a drawer, hoping one day it'll come out untangled again: the knot gets even bigger while you're not looking. I couldn't find the right piece to pull, couldn't get a good grip on the links, even if I wanted to. We're just too... done.”

Inspirational Family Friends Conflict Complicated Intense Insightful

Book:Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

Source: Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.”

Friendship Loneliness Friends Alone Insightful Best Friends

Book:Asylum

Source: Asylum

“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.”

“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.”

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”

Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.”

“Everything in your mental life proceeds in proper neurological order. If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror.”

Source: What is Mind?

“You would not search the woodside gay To pick a springtime flower When all the shuddering country groans Before the North Wind's power. Nor would you seek with greedy hand To pluck your vines in May; The wine god gives his gift of grapes When Autumn's on the way. For God has fixed the season's tasks And each receives its own: No power is free to disarray The order God has shown.”

Philosophy Insightful

Book:The Consolation of Philosophy

Source: The Consolation of Philosophy

“My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you’ll remember; literature that matters.”

Philosophy Insightful

Author:M.G.Crisci

“People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish”

Source: Pearls Of Eternity

“Calm is the best revenge”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“True understanding lies beyond the desert”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Know the laws before you break them”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“If there is no reward, there is no reason to run”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“If you think you can't, you're wrong and right”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“The hardest thing is a man to truly know himself”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“You are what you believe”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Please others and you please yourself”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“It's always easy to conquer the hungry with a piece of bread. Only the wise can conquer the strong”

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.”

“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.”

“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”

“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”

“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”