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  • Bill Hybels There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in itself?'' In the second, ''Can it be easily put into practice?''
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • M. Rukeyser There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist.
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  • Vince Lombardi There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Machiavelli There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Bill Bailey There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Charles F. Kettering There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Bob Hayes There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.
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  • Bill Engvall There's a lot of things I believe in this world. I believe in God, I believe in the United States of America, and I support and believe in the Second Amendment.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • H. Rap Brown There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Lorrie Moore They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Beau Willimon This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Aristophanes This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
    Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
    Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Quentin Crisp Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Henry James Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • William Blake Tiger, tiger burning bright,
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye,
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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