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8221 Spirit quotes by 3635 unique authors
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing. Though it carries the woman…
— David O. McKay
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind…
— Alexander Hamilton
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His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something…
— Aberjhani
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James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science…
— Heinz Pagels
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without…
— John Dewey
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...the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers...
— Zitkala-Sa
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A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.
— Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
— John Vance Cheney
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I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
— Bernard Moitessier
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his…
— James Keller
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Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was…
— Nicole Haislett
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The Most Important Thing I Know About the Spirit of Sport... It instills in us the ability to recognize and appreciate the talents of others…
— Dot Richardson
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Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit…
— Meb Keflezighi
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing…
— Simon Doonan
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The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of…
— Unknown Author
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Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.
— Unknown Author
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot…
— Mark the Evangelist
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Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no…
— Eric Milner-White
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Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced…
— Jean Meslier
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit,…
— Mary Antin
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I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the…
— Drake Bell
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I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.
— Jacqueline Cochran
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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!
— Unknown Author
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