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You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something… — Betty Cuthbert
When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking… — John Flavel
At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul then comes in… — John O'Donohue
Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine. — Oswald Chambers
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life… — Hugh Hefner
Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was… — LaVell Edwards
What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included… — Clementine Ford
I believe it to be of particular importance that the scientist have an articulate and adequate social philosophy, even more important than the average man… — Percy Williams Bridgman
There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But… — Brad Carson
We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born into the stories… — Lewis Hyde
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that work? It would… — Unknown Author
This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Medicare in particular will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much taxes go up. — Barack Obama
This case is not about whether marriages between same-sex couples are consistent or inconsistent with the teachings of a particular religion, whether such marriages are… — Unknown Author
Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality… — Anatole Broyard
Who you truly are is a place of no particular thing, but all things at once. — Alan Finger
Gardener's , like everyone else, live second by second and minute by minute. What we see at one particular moment is then and there before… — Allen Lacy
Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary. — Linji Yixuan
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still… — Plato
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many… — Unknown Author
Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is,… — Unknown Author

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