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Revolutions may precede revolutions, earthquakes may rend the earth ... but amidst the crashing worlds and the clash of matter, truth, eternal truth, will remain unchanged.


Elder Featherstone

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ARISTOTLE In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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TERRY PRATCHETT Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
KARL MARX Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may w...
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LARRY ELDER Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
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LARRY ELDER The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
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LARRY ELDER A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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LARRY ELDER A goal without a plan is just a wish.
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BRUCE ELDER I think in upcoming campaigns - local campaigns, even national campaigns - the Web is going to be us...
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CATO ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
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ROSS ELDER I’m Busy as Hell not making any Money. It’s easy to be busy, the key is to be busy making money.
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LARRY ELDER Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines...
LARRY ELDER Polls and focus groups show younger blacks less likely to identify themselves as Democrats, and more...
LARRY ELDER That's probably a problem for the next six months to a year.
CATHERINE ELDER Frankly, we believe natural gas prices would have dropped more this winter, had it not been for $60+...
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DONNA ELDER The issue of concurrent time would be irrelevant then. It's not to his advantage to wait.
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ELDER PERRY Let's pray that he has the strength to get through the next few weeks. I'm sure the Lord will contin...
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JAMES ELDER With so many economic challenges, coupled with a very high number of orphaned children ... there is ...
JAMES ELDER For 12 years, we've been trying to get him back. It was good that his teaching last time was on pati...
JACKI ELDER The more the American troops die, the more troops they send to die.
JOE ELDER It is part of the democratic process. We say what we believe and learn what we can and then we make ...
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JOE ELDER The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDER The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDER Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
PLINY THE ELDER They enrolled me in a group for troubled kids. We would meet each week in an old farmhouse owned by ...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON There is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
PLINY THE ELDER The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of liv...
PLINY THE ELDER Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
CATO THE ELDER If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO THE ELDER Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
PLINY THE ELDER I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDER Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDER It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
CATO THE ELDER I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO THE ELDER It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDER The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
CATO THE ELDER The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDER Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
CATO THE ELDER Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
CATO THE ELDER In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest...
PLINY THE ELDER We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our fe...
PLINY THE ELDER Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently,...
PLINY THE ELDER Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to c...
PLINY THE ELDER The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice ...
PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them...
PLINY THE ELDER To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly...
PLINY THE ELDER The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
PLINY THE ELDER Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, b...
PLINY THE ELDER Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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PLINY THE ELDER To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own kind: we see them flo...
PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess th...
PLINY THE ELDER Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
CATO THE ELDER Even though work stops, expenses run on.
CATO THE ELDER An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
CATO THE ELDER Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO THE ELDER The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDER Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first ti...
PLINY THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
PLINY THE ELDER No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
PLINY THE ELDER From the end spring new beginnings.
PLINY THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and i...
PLINY THE ELDER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO THE ELDER The pain behind these eyes run deep, I shelter it & keep it within; for these are the scars of my li...
ROBERT ANDREW ELDER Carthage must be destroyed.
CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO THE ELDER The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess the...
PLINY THE ELDER Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDER No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDER In wine, there's truth.
PLINY THE ELDER With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDER The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDER Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cup...
PLINY THE ELDER Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as ...
PLINY THE ELDER Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or a leg, or drowned him in t...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Appearing as a character in my brother’s books taught me something about myself. For most of my li...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people wi...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibit...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Because speaking while watching things has always been difficult for me, learning to drive a car and...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act "normal." I can do it well enough to fool the aver...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON