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You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. — Robert Caro
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. — Henry Ward Beecher
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw… — Elbert Hubbard
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth… — John Stuart Mill
You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. — Anita Brookner
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat… — Abraham Lincoln
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution… — Abraham Lincoln
If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to… — Abraham Lincoln
And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced… — Abraham Lincoln
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other… — George Washington
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left… — Thomas Jefferson
There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of… — Thomas Jefferson
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors… — James Madison
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins… — Ronald Reagan
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself… — Ian Botham
I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel. — Ryne Sandberg
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. — Robert Frost
All right, then, I'll go to hell. — Mark Twain
What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity… — Hakuin Ekaku
How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally… — Sri Chinmoy
The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation… — Sri Chinmoy
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel… — Sri Chinmoy

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