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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…
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The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which…
— Nathan Farragut Twining
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Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases…
— Saul Bass
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Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving…
— Harold Brodkey
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And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain.…
— Margaret Atwood
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If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one…
— Confucius
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Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or…
— Gerhard Richter
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I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that…
— Bo Bice
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People keep speculating about my personal life because I am evasive about it.
— Priyanka Chopra
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually…
— Ingmar Bergman
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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
— Margaret Thatcher
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It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild…
— C.S. Lewis
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