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- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
- When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
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- As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a… — Allen Boyd
- People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle
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- Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand… — Madeleine Albright