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We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from… — Shawn Johnson
No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins. — Phil Jackson
Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been… — Barack Obama
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same… — Denis Diderot
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made… — Thomas a Kempis
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. — Edith Hamilton
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit… — Bertrand Russell
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. — Albert Einstein
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. — Henry Fielding
There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. — Marcel Proust
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires.… — Robert Collier
The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he… — J. P. Morgan
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. — Charles Caleb Colton
Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth. — Janet Morris
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails… — Joseph Addison
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied… — Samuel Johnson
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were… — Aberjhani
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. — Henry David Thoreau
I'm of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go… — Thomas Jane
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit… — John Stuart Mill
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. One lifetime… — Unknown Author
For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and… — Blaise Pascal

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