Quotes 21 till 40 of 1564.
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
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A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
Speech 1854 -
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.
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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
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A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
The Anatomy of Melancholy Part I, sect. 2,3,6 -
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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Anyone looking for a beautiful woman, good and intelligent, do not try one but three.
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Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
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