There are many examples of excessive signage. One junction we saw had 16 signs but psychologists tell us the most messages we can take in at any one time is five.

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I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER

we
sat there
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cigarettes
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5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
L.J. VANIER

The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER There is no question that he is one of the most dynamic performers we've had. We will give him as mu...
LARRY GROCE Many MIDI files contain entire musical compositions. Because MIDI supports only 16 channels, however...
CHARLES PETZOLD

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL All of the victims (who went missing along Hwy 16) were aboriginal women except for one. We are told...
BEVERLEY JACOBS We're all in this together. You are not alone. All lines and divisions are artificial. We are one. W...
AKIROQ BROST What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?
JEFFREY A. WHITE If one wants to go to Mumbai from Baroda, he will ‘like’ all the signs towards the south. And if...
DADA BHAGWAN The law is extremely restrictive in constraining the development of civil society in Iraq; it vests ...
DOUGLAS RUTZEN We just played real solid from one through five. When we've got all five guys playing well at one to...
ALLEN TERRELL You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN He's been there for us, and he's also been there for his wife. He's like Superman, in two places at ...
DARREL OWENS One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are e...
BENNY GREEN Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN There is no other media event in which we can reach so many beer drinkers at one time, which makes t...
BOB LACHKY The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us ...
FRITZ KREISLER But the Universe gives us different sources of Love to unite us all as One. Who are we to decide wha...
IMBOLO MBUE Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are e...
BENNY GREEN One of the most powerful and courageous voices any of us can listen to is our own, but it is often t...
JANET HANSON Jane Heard.
ONE One of the things we want is to incorporate flexibility into the buildings. Nobody can tell us what'...
DALE SCHEIDEMAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We are not going to install much here in a five-week period. We can lean in one direction or another...
DICK JAURON The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts..
Everything is ONE!
DAVE ZEBIAN To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who creat...
MARTIN SUAREZ The awakening is finally realizing that you are a part of God, like a single cell that finally sees ...
L.J. VANIER We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one a...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But...
ED BEGLEY, JR. Robert Morris is one of the most talented teams in this league. They are so strong one through five ...
BRIAN NASH It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND What this tournament represents is a mid-season gut-check. There are 16 good teams in this tournamen...
KAREN ANDERSON We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fac...
PICO IYER Love more, hurt less. Laugh more, cry less. Live more, worry less. Give more, take less. Hug more, f...
ABHISHEK KUMAR Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six mo...
GERARD ASCHIERI We saw some bargain hunting today after Monday's excessive drop. But with so many negative external ...
KOICHI OGAWA We've all worked together at one time or another. We all respect each other. Any one of us can do th...
DENNIS LOBENBERG You had better have one King than five hundred.
CHARLES II I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I'm a nice guy, but not all the time. There are these personalities in me, so many of them. They...
EL DEBARGE Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is...
JON J. MUTH The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused; most of us just don’t know enough ...
P. A. SPEERS We take it one game at a time, but we're looking down the road, too. This time of the year most team...
GARY CRANE Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's th...
EBEN ALEXANDER There are many gull species in the world. This one is noticeably different from any gull we have in ...
BRYAN PFEIFFER I can't tell you why they refuse us a category. At the most, I thought it would take five.
JACK GILL We had 10 to 15 in the lobby at any one time, but the dogs were very well behaved and their owners h...
CHERYL CONWAY All we can do is take it one game at a time. We are playing good basketball right now. Our sophomore...
BILL CAHILL We can honor Dr. King's sacrifice. We can help his children fulfill their legacy. ... Every one of u...
BILL CLINTON We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playbo...
LAURENCE OLIVIER We had members in Alaska, Hawaii; we even had a wing in Canada, but they kind of died out. There wer...
FLORA BALMER We are seen as one of the shining examples of base redevelopment,
DANIEL STEWART We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the...
TARUN BETALA There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent ...
KURT VONNEGUT God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home
FRENCH PROVERB It was somewhere in North Carolina, and the waitress there was the first one to tell us about what h...
DEVIN SHELTON Coach talked to us at halftime about when you think about it, one play in a big game, one mental mis...
JULIAN WRIGHT The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If we had been more disciplined - granted, there were some bad calls, but we needed to stay out of t...
BRYCE SALVADOR Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don&#...
ALEX TIZON In day to day life, there are many problems to solve, there are many lessons to learn, there are man...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA But we suspect there are many more staying in the local community who haven't needed us for one reas...
CHRISTINE PARKER I'm an avid animal lover. When I was 16, I wanted to be a vet or a zookeeper. I grew up with ani...
MISTY MAY-TREANOR I thought we played well enough to win. We had many quality at-bats, but we needed that one hit to g...
AL FRICKE Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these ...
BILLY GRAHAM There are signs of a hard struggle ahead. I can't remember the last time we had this situation.
HANNES HESSE We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We all dressed Western. That's the image that Carrol put out to the community. He had us wearing Wes...
CHARLIE HOLLOWAY Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we...
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER Frank is a massively intelligent man. It's difficult to sum up but he can watch a game in which we a...
CHRIS PATERSON Any time you go on the road in the ACC and get a win, it's amazing and we'll take any one we can get...
HOLLY JOHNSON We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The Apocalypse can take different forms. The least dramatic, at first sight, is the one in which man...
IVAN KLíMA I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most gr...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We have seven guys that are right up there at the top every time. Last year we finished up there wit...
JEAN FOSTER Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be...
SAINT IGNATIUS Physical misery is great everywhere out here Africa. Are we justified in shutting our eyes and ignor...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON All of the victims (who went missing along Highway 16) were aboriginal women except for one. We're t...
BEVERLEY JACOBS We're all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it's hard to find time to sort throug...
MICHELLE OBAMA We have had age division state tournaments in the city in the past, but this is the first time we ha...
BILLY POWELL We just need to take it one inning and one game at a time. It will be a test for us, but we will go ...
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EDMUND WHITE If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting...
EDMUND MORRISON It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSER Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
EDMUND SPENSER It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
EDMUND SPENSER Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
EDMUND SPENSER Anger manages everything badly.
EDMUND SPENSER There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]
EDMUND SPENSER Although the last, not least.
EDMUND SPENSER In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city withou...
EDMUND WHITE It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this gr...
EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, un...
EDMUND BURKE Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that thes...
EDMUND BURKE And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
EDMUND MUSKE Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
EDMUND SPENSER Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those...
EDMUND ROSTAND Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
EDMUND BURKE We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
EDMUND BURKE

There are many examples of excessive signage. One junction we saw had 16 signs but psychologists tell us the most messages we can take in at any one time is five.

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There are many examples of excessive signage. One junction we saw had 16 signs but psychologists tell us the most messages we can take in at any one time is five.

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