Maintain Quotes

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People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what… — Unknown Author
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else --… — Joseph Epstein
I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals. — Grace Slick
Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term… — Jiang Zemin
Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model,… — Zhu Rongji
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so inexpressibly painful and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man,… — Sarah Josepha Hale
Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier,… — Epictetus
Peace and union are the most necessary of all things for men who live in common, and nothing serves so well to establish and maintain… — Robert Bellarmine
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. — James S. Coleman
If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and… — Freda Adler
The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that… — Ludwig von Mises
Those who are highly evolved, maintain an undiscriminating perception. Seeing everything, labeling nothing, they maintain their awareness of the Great Oneness. Thus they are supported… — Laozi
You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless you… — John Wooden
The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and… — Robert Reich
We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to… — Joseph O'Neill
Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation… — Herbert Spencer
When they'd been on the run, with death maybe lying in wait around any corner, they had never been more alive. When each day might… — Steve Perry
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve… — Niklaus Wirth
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence… — Unknown Author
To be a healthy person, you have to be sympathetic to the child you once were and maintain the continuity between you as a child… — Maurice Sendak
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether… — Gottfried Leibniz
Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up. — Sigmund Freud
In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing… — Carlos Castaneda

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