truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 8:04 am

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Change Rome to USA and see if it doesn't make sense.

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 8:29 am

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 8:32 am

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 8:51 am

Faith, according to the teaching of St. Antioch, is the beginning of our union with God. One who truly believes is a stone in the temple of God; he is prepared for the edifice of God the Father, raised to the heights by the power of Jesus Christ, that is, of the Cross, with the aid of ropes, that is, the grace of the Holy Spirit.

St. Seraphim of Sarov

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 22 January 2007 1:51 pm

Careless words could come back to haunt you. Remember to count to three (or maybe ten) before you reply. A few seconds of delay could make all the difference in averting a problem or inflaming it.
Anonymous

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 23 January 2007 7:45 am

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 23 January 2007 7:49 am

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce