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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on towards where one is heading.
Original:El sentido de la vida depende no de donde se encuentre uno sino de adonde se dirija.
Source: Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006 -
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
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The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
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The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
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The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.
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The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
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The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
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The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
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The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
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