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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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America means opportunity, freedom, power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still…
— Malcolm X
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And freedom is what America means to the world.
— Audie Murphy
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You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means -…
— Mike Pence
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The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children,…
— Audie Murphy
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You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can…
— Herbert Hoover
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To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.
— Arthur Cohn
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Discussion in America means dissent.
— James Thurber
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.
— Charles B. Rangel
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There is common ground we can look towards and hopefully make this country better for all of us. That is what Joe…
— Joe Wurzelbacher
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