Quotes 661 till 680 of 683.
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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
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You can't put a great soul into a commomplace person. Commonplace persons have commonplace souls.
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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.
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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.
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You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
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You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
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