"I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated."

-- Brian P. Cleary

#Unnecessary Quotes #Sophisticated Quotes

“Everyone is scared of having a free sexual life and what they do is go on the Internet and masturbate. This is the pure sexual misery today. They don't even go to the movie theater like in the '70s.”
“A lot of times the expectations of you are so high that no matter what you do you are never going to be able to live up to those expectations. So you better go out and do the best you can and enjoy it.”
“...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.”
“The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.”

Source : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
“The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.491
“The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!”
“In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.”

Source : John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns
“Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.”

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