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Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war. – Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. – Carl Schurz	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. – Sydney Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. – Ling Po, (Chinese, 701-762)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. – Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value. – Sidney Madwed	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing. – Sydney Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. – Sydney Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil – Golda Meir	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f*in' night. – Casino**	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. – James Arthur Baldwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. – Jean Baudrillard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control – Joan B. Campbell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition. – John Owen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All sunshine makes the desert. – Arabic Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All sunshine makes a desert. – Arabic Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ideals are like stars you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. – Carl Schurz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls. – Adlai Ewing Stevenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference. – Alan Valentine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. – Alfred Victor Vigny	added by anonymous 14 years ago
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world. – Dinesh D'Souza	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For the desert, a camel is better than a horse. - On Situational Leadership; Stamina vs. Speed – Med Jones	added by seattle29 14 years ago

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