Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1433.
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
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The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
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The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
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The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
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The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
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