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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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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence…
— William Gurnall
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Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in…
— Reza Aslan
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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored,…
— David Antin
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Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.
— George H. W. Bush
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Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the…
— Peter Elbow
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Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.
— Charlie Munger
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've…
— Barack Obama
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Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No…
— John Bunyan
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There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those…
— John Bunyan
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity…
— Xunzi
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Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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