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Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Matthew Henry

Heart, Him, Loved

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Greatest, Nothing

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve Jobs

Life, History, Down

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford

Give, Succeed, Skill

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

Love, Through, Soul

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen

Friendship, Humor, Best

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.
Plato

Love, Friend, Return

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford

Person, Mouth, Bore

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken

Judge, Law, Student

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling

True, Watch, Measure

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Made, Talent

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm

Problem, Existence, Animal

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian

Person, Off, Show

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton

Wisdom, Mind, Greatest

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Success, Change, Times

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace, Home, King

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Work, Yourself, Him

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh

Health, Care, Country

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand

Work, Reality, Keep

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
Thomas Merton

Life, Person, Find

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant H. McGill

Person, Find, Afraid

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud

Life, Mother, Feeling

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fool, Forget, Others

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
Greta Garbo

Smile, Face, Anyone

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Plato

Life, Education, End

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin

Father, Human, Child

There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
Charles Stanley

Love, Deep, Through

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx

Time, Before, Boss

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway

Great, Rather, Write

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin

God, Truth, Coward

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