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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Honesty is the best policy.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Remember that credit is money.
Time is money.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.
Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
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