Quotes with spirit-filled

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  • Isadora Duncan The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Billy Sunday The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
    As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Lord Thomas Dewar The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
    Lord Thomas Dewar
    Scottish businessman (1864 - 1930)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Allan Bloom The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Margaret Thatcher The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Bruce Lee The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Henrik Ibsen The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • George Santayana The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Vince Lombardi The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Arnold Bennett The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Sholem Asch The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
    Sholem Asch
    Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist (0 - 1957)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Giambattista Vico The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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