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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
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Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
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Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
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