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Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mr. Russell is a great believer in versatility in all creative work. In any physical work he believes one can work many hours at a… — Walter Russell
The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. — Leo Buscaglia
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing. — Wallace D. Wattles
The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in… — Murray Rothbard
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly… — John Maynard Keynes
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of… — George Washington
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by… — Algernon Sidney
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones. — Thomas Jefferson
Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they… — Joseph Sobran
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of… — Henry Ford
Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends. — Wallace D. Wattles
Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you… — Erich Fromm
You must love anything you must do. Do it not only cheerfully, but also lovingly and the very best way you know how. That love… — Walter Russell
To get paid the best, you must be the best. — T. Harv Eker
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change. — Drake
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the… — Andrew Carnegie
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further… — Richard Goldschmidt
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this,… — Hermann Bondi
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain… — Louis Agassiz
Industry is best at the intersection of science and art. — Edwin Land

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