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A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
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A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
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A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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