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The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination -… — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the… — Mahatma Gandhi
I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man. — Thomas Jefferson
When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers… — Sun Tzu
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed… — Alfred Binet
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of… — William James
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever… — Adolf Hitler
Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand. — George Foreman
Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. — George S. Patton
Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky. — Janet Morris
If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and… — Deepak Chopra
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed. — Mark Twain
... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and… — Joseph Addison
The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary… — Sigmund Freud
We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is. — Donald Rumsfeld
Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts — George S. Patton
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men… — Alfred Adler
Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Remember, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is certain, life is always uncertain. Everything dead is solid, fixed - its nature cannot be changed; everything… — Rajneesh

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