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War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience,… — Walter Bagehot
Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and… — William Bernbach
Having taken on the care of foster children, a mother forced her own daughter to beat them. According to her later account: Mom puts the… — Julie Gregory
To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good. — Laozi
When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms. — Thomas Sowell
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know. — Maurice Blondel
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. — Frank Rizzo
All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not… — Ronald Knox
The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. — Louis Simpson
The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only… — Isoroku Yamamoto
I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do.… — Gregg Popovich
Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets… — Jules de Goncourt
Things don't just happen, people make them happen — Zig Ziglar
It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make… — Norman Angell
About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed… — J. C. R. Licklider
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we… — Ihab Hassan
The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds… — John Locke
Have confidence in your decisions. Make them expeditiously, and stay with them as long as you believe you are correct no matter what others say.… — Ed Koch
Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so… — Thomas Jefferson

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