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1.       By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. -Democritus 2.       Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour; the mind annihilates and calls for more. -Andrew Young. 3.       Controlled time is our true wealth. -Buckminster Fuller. 4.       Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty. – Unknown. 5.       Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. - John Wicker. 6.       Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde. 7.       A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. -Anonymous. 8.       A m...

Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear Man, - Mahatma Gandhi. You don't preach brotherhood of Man; you teach it by yourself practicing the same. – Antoine de Saint Exupery. In Prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a Heart. –John Bunyan. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers! – Tennyson. There is no ghost as difficult to lay as the ghost of an imagined injury. – Alexander Smith. No one ever prayed heartily without learning something. –Emerson. Some people always sigh in thanking God! The greatest pilgrimage is the journey inward. –A. H. Jetha. They serve God well who serve his creatures! – Caroline Newton. We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves ? – Willian Nicholas. All the world needs to speak the same language – the language of Tolerance and Acceptance.   Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the ...

             Intelligence consists in recognizing opportunity. -Unknown Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.   -Aldous Huxley Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. -Albert Einstein There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. -Henry Adams I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. -Lisa Alther The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. -R...

The way to have power is to take it. Boss Tweed The greatest power is not money power, but political power. Walter Annenberg No one has the power, or the right, to take anything away from us. James Taylor I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley I'm sure we have the power also to see things, but it's going to happen in many, many years. Monica Bellucci We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. Benjamin Hoff Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. Michael Franti In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. LEO TOLSTOY, Knowledge is power. FRANCIS BACON Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ABIGAIL ADAMS Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin th...

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. Bertrand Russell 1872-1970. A lecture is a process by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the students without passing through the minds of either. R.K. Rathbun. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. Horace Mann. Teachers who cannot keep students involved and excited for several hours in the classroom should not be there. John Roueche.   If a professor can be replaced by a CD-ROM, he/she should be. Jack Wilson. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. Albert Einstein. Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. [New York Times, 1931] Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. Josephine Tey. Education is one ...

  We can believe what we choose.  We ae answerable for what we choose to believe. –Cardinal Newman Happiness is a direction, not a place. –Syndey J. Harris Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.         -Henry David Thoreau Life is meant to be lived. –Eleanor Roosevelt Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.        -Ralph Waldo Emerson Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.        -Lady Bird Johnson 7.       Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 8.       Life, like a dome of many colored glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. - Percy Bysshe Shelley 9.       The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ...

Lives of great men all remind us. we can make our lives sublime And departing, leaves behind us Footprints on the sands of time Longfellow                                       Justice is truth in action. - Joseph Joubert. We must all hang together, else we shall be hanged separately. -Benjamin Franklin. There's none so blind as they that won't see. -Swift. Money is a good servant, but a poor master. - Dominique Bonbours. Civilisation begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. -Will Durant. The greatest men in history were the poorest. -Emerson. Our concern is not how to worship in catacombs, but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. -Abraham Joshua Herschel. Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it...

1.                   The greatest ability is dependability. 2.                   Faith is the bird that sings when tha dawn is still dark. Tagore. 3.                   Life is not a 100 metre dash, it is more a cross-country run! Joseph Kennedy. 4.                   The word "Impossible" is not in my dictionary. Nepoleon. 5.                   Success is often an idea away ! 6.                   You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it ! 7...

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. B. Franklin There's nothing so divine as sealing a letter to a friend. The only way to have a friend is to be one. Emerson. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. Pubilius Syrus. A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. Speak well of your enemies - remember you made them - don't bother why and how. Freedom and friendship are the oxygen of the soul. Moshe Dyan. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. -- Cindy Lew Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure. -- Jewish Saying "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." -- Elbert Hubbard "Who finds a faithful friend, finds...