The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on Earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances....Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley
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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints, and gods use a short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
Benjamin Franklin
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Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Hale Broun
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock, and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Will Rogers
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It always will seem funny to us United Staters that we are about the only ones that really know how to do everything right. I don't know how a lot of these other nations have existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em really how to be pure and good like us.
Will Rogers
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America has a great habit of always talking about protecting American interests in some foreign country. Protect 'em here at home! There is more American interests right here than anywhere.
Will Rogers
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Give Americans a one-piece bathing suit, a hamburger, and five gallons of gasoline, and they are just as tickled as a movie star with a new divorce.
Will Rogers
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The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.
Will Rogers
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We'll hold the distinction of being the only nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile.
Will Rogers
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Get 'em all home, add to their number, add to their training, then just sit tight with a great feeling of security and just read about foreign wars. That's the best thing in the world to do with them.
Will Rogers
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Art is when you do something just cockeyed from what is the right way to do it, then it's art.
Will Rogers
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Cowardice or bravery is never racial. You find both in every country. No country has a monolopy on bravery; great deeds of heroism are liable to break out in the most unexpected places.
Will Rogers
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If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.
Will Rogers
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Coolidge is the first President to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
Will Rogers
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You can always joke good naturedly a big man, but be sure he is a big man before you joke about him.
Will Rogers
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Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
Abraham Lincoln
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Benjamin Franklin
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Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
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Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Henry David Thoreau
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Thomas Alva Edison
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If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.
Denis Waitley
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The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
Jill Ruckelshaus
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Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
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Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
Howard Cosell
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This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis
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We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
William Tecumseh Sherman
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I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
Peter Cooper
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Self-trust is the essence of heroism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no end to the sufficiency of character. It can afford to wait; it can do without what is called success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.
Henry Kissinger
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
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I learned years ago not to doze off or leave my wallet lying around in the presence of people who tell me that they are more moral than others.
Carl Rowan
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
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I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an "Honest Man."
George Washington
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The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights - that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker Washington
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I agree with you entirely in condemning the mania of giving names to objects of any kind after persons still living. Death alone can seal the title of any man to this honor, by putting it out of his power to forfeit it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
Henry David Thoreau
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Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings
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The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
James Russell Lowell
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.
Abraham Lincoln
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For when the one Great Scorer comes
Grantland Rice
To write against your name,
He marks - not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.
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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
Darrell Royal
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Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Vince Lombardi
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
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Our great business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
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It isn't what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe. It is only what you do.
Brian Tracy
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Whenever God wants to give us a gift, he wraps it up in a problem.
Norman Vincent Peale
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You don't earn the right to solve big problems until you have solved the small ones.
Lloyd Conant
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
Richard Bach
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom and defended it as they ought.
Samuel Adams
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Driven from every other corner of the Earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their courses to this happy country as their last asylum.
Samuel Adams
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
William Buckley Jr.
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Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
Henry Commager
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
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A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
Milton Friedman
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There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.
Robert Hayne
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Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.
Herbert Hoover
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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
Thomas Jefferson
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The defense of freedom is finally grounded in an appreciation of its value. No government, no foreign policy, is more important to the defense of freedom than are the writers, teachers, communication specialists, researchers - whose responsibility it is to document, illustrate, and explain the human consequence of freedom and unfreedom.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
William Somerset Maugham
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I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
Oscar Levant
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting it to be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
Artemus Ward
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Our defense is not in armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Albert Einstein
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Only a life lived for others is the life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
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What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Albert Einstein
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