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Richard Cobden: Luck relies on...

Richard Cobden: Luck relies on...

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: It is a...

Martha Wright Griffiths: It is a...

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: This amendment [the...

Martha Wright Griffiths: This amendment [the...

This amendment [the Equal Rights Amendment], if passed, would be like a beacon which should awaken nine sleeping Rip...

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David Dinkins: Ellis Island is...

David Dinkins: Ellis Island is...

Ellis Island is for the people who came over on ships. My people came in chains.

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David Dinkins: You can be...

David Dinkins: You can be...

You can be anything you want to be. You can be a street sweeper, if you want. Just be the best blasted street sweeper...

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Edward M Kennedy: Well, here I...

Edward M Kennedy: Well, here I...

Well, here I don't go again.

Source: On decision not to run in 1988 presidential...

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Barack Obama: Focusing your life...

Barack Obama: Focusing your life...

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself....

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Barack Obama: Community colleges play...

Barack Obama: Community colleges play...

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they...

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Robert F Kennedy: One-fifth of the...

Robert F Kennedy: One-fifth of the...

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Source: Speech, 6 May...

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John Bright: Popular applause veers...

John Bright: Popular applause veers...

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Denis Healey: That part of...

Denis Healey: That part of...

That part of his speech was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Source: On...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Nagging is the...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Nagging is the...

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Source: Speech, 1960.
-- Edith...

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Daniel Moynihan: Somehow liberals have...

Daniel Moynihan: Somehow liberals have...

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a...

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Daniel Moynihan: To strip our...

Daniel Moynihan: To strip our...

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

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James K Polk: Though I occupy...

James K Polk: Though I occupy...

Though I occupy a very high position, I am the hardest-working man in this country.

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George Washington: Discipline is the...

George Washington: Discipline is the...

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to...

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George Washington: Few people have...

George Washington: Few people have...

Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Source: Letter, 17 Aug....

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Bliss Carman: Set me a...

Bliss Carman: Set me a...

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and...

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Leopold Senghor: I have always...

Leopold Senghor: I have always...

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the...

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Marcus Garvey: I read Up...

Marcus Garvey: I read Up...

I read Up From Slavery and then my dream -- if I may so call it -- of being a race leader...

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