Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 4180.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.
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Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
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Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.
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Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
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Leave this world a little better than you found it.
Source: Last Message to Scouts (1941)― Robert Baden-Powell
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Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
Source: Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326 -
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
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Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June.
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Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
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