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Marcus Fabius Quintilian: The pretended admission...

Marcus Fabius Quintilian: The pretended admission...

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

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Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into...

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Joel A Barker: Vision without action...

Joel A Barker: Vision without action...

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the...

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: Coercion may prevent...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: Coercion may prevent...

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom...

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A E Housman: Great literature should...

A E Housman: Great literature should...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his...

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Warren E Burger: Free speech carries...

Warren E Burger: Free speech carries...

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Source: Majority opinion in 7-1...

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Dale Carnegie: Flaming enthusiasm, backed...

Dale Carnegie: Flaming enthusiasm, backed...

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for...

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Albert Schweitzer: The only ones...

Albert Schweitzer: The only ones...

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to...

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Ferdinand Foch: The fundamental qualities...

Ferdinand Foch: The fundamental qualities...

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which...

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T E Lawrence: The literature of...

T E Lawrence: The literature of...

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

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Marcel Proust: We do not...

Marcel Proust: We do not...

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire...

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Georges Bernanos: It is the...

Georges Bernanos: It is the...

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

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Joseph Hall: He is great...

Joseph Hall: He is great...

He is great enough that is his own master.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: He who chooses...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: He who chooses...

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: No steam or...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: No steam or...

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is...

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Robert South: Wonder is from...

Robert South: Wonder is from...

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Source: In The...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: God has put...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: God has put...

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: A person wrapped...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: A person wrapped...

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick: Our power is...

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Our power is...

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Jimmy Swaggart: Plato's system was...

Jimmy Swaggart: Plato's system was...

Plato's system was . . . rent by an irreconcilable dualism of mind and body, spirit and matter, good and evil, with...

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