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From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
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Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a 1040 EZ form with a 52-page help booklet.
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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
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Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.
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He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
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History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
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Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.
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