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Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

Jim Cooper

War

Leader

May

Terrorism

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.

There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Joseph Conrad

May

Nations

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.