Quotes 26481 till 26499 of 26499.
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
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Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
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Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse
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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.
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Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
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Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
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Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather.
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Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
Source: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received (2004) 20 -
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
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We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq, Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events swung American public opinion in our favor.
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We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
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