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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Calvin Coolidge
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies. — Aesop
Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives. — Bill Gates
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. — John Calvin
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live — William Shakespeare
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg — Oscar Wilde
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?… — Agnes Repplier
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end.… — Diane Lane
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the… — Charles Dickens
I know you want me back. It's time to face the facts. That I'm the one that's got away. Lord knows that it would take… — Beyonce Knowles
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs,… — Clifford Geertz
The great will not condescend to take anything seriously. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather.… — Sylvia Earle
Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things… — Ted Danson
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have… — Thomas Jefferson
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come… — Barack Obama
Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing. — Ming-Dao Deng
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a… — Henry David Thoreau
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please… — Plautus
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you. — Albert Einstein
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. — Aldous Huxley
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher

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