Quotes 25041 till 25060 of 25180.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
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Not enjoyment and not sorrow, is our destined end or way; but to act that each tomorrow find us farther than today.
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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.''
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
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