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No man can have society upon his own terms. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping… — John Donne
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used… — Herbert Hoover
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms. — Dorothy Parker
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy. — Hans Hofmann
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism. However, I believe… — Antonio Damasio
In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important… — Peter Drucker
It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty. — Dalai Lama
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand… — Samuel Adams
People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that… — Stephen Covey
Who am I? I'm a survivor. I'm a woman with tremendous inner resources and resilience. I care about people. I believe in 'Do unto others… — Jane Fonda
Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet… — Elisabeth Elliot
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,… — Ravi Zacharias
I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work,… — Tina Turner
We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of… — Desmond Morris
In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming. — Gary Hamel
I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much… — Tim Ferriss
You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can… — P.J. O'Rourke
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have… — Jeff Bezos

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