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Quotes 721 till 740 of 1724.

  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bernadette Peters Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Brian Tracy Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Arthur Helps It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Dwight L. Moody It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Francis Bacon It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Renata Adler It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
    Renata Adler
    American author, journalist, and film (1937 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Szasz It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Hannah Arendt It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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