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Reality Is Rarely What We Imaging. Great And Noble Things Do Not Always Happen For Great And Noble Reasons.
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Reality is rarely what we imaging. Great and noble things do not
always happen for great and noble reasons.
-- Tracy Thompson, 'Reader's Digest,' Oct. 1994
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Not a day passes over this earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
-- Charles Reed...
So do the noble fall. For they are ever caught in a trap of their own making.
A trap -- walled by duty, and locked by reality. Against the greater force they must fall -- for, against that force they fight because of duty, because of obligations....
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. -- Cornelius Tacitu
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall....
We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. -- Mother Theresa
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant, in "Reader's Digest", 1972...
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley, in "Reader's Digest", 1956...
America ... a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose.
-- Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)...
We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa