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During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity,; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

– James Madison

Duty makes us do things well. Love makes us do thing beautifully.

Each time history repeats itself, the price does up.

– Ronald Wright

Don’t waste a good imagination on worrying.

Don’t wrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Don’t write a check with your mouth that your body can’t cash.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

– Will Rogers

Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.

Don’t be so humble – you’re not that great.

Don’t believe everything you think.

Don’t complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve!

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

– Theodore Roosevelt

Do you realize how dumb the average person is? Well, half of the population is dumber than that.

Desire is possibility seeking expression.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dear God, look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in the world. Why don’t you send help? God: “I did send help. I sent you.”

Death is nature’s way of telling you to take better care of yourself.

CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future.

Cynicism is the protection of the mind against threatening thoughts, ideas and concepts. Sarcasm is the protection of the tongue against threatening thoughts, ideas and concepts.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.

Consider not how to work to make a living, but how to make a living work.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

– H. L. Mencken

Consequences may far outweigh intent. The intent of the mosquito may be to deprive you of some of your blood. The consequences of malaria, however, far outweighs any intention of the mosquito.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compound interest!

– Albert Einstein

Common sense ain’t so common cause not everyone’s got it.

Comedy is tragedy, plus time.

– Carol Burnett

Circumstances do not make a man – they reveal him.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected; carefully planned projects only twice as long.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of the tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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