Quotes 3161 till 3180 of 4570.
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The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
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The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
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The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Source: My Study Windows (1871) -
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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