Quotes 21 till 40 of 614.
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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
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Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911) -
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
Life and the student (1927) -
A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
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A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
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