Quotes with ring-and-thimble

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  • Bob Beauprez Countries around the world are celebrating new oil and natural gas discoveries that hold the promise of greater prosperity for their citizens.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Arthur Capper County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • William T. Sherman Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
    William T. Sherman
    American businessman
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  • David Seabury Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Marlene Dietrich Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Frances Rodman Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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  • Winston Churchill Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Denis Waitley Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Plutarch Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Augustus William Hare Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Anna Akhmatova Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Henry Clay Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
    Henry Clay
    American lawyer, planter, and statesman (1777 - 1852)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, And I'm not getting laid. What am I doing wrong?
    Arizona Bay
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bob Barr Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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