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If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can… — Daisaku Ikeda
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies. — James Madison
When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad… — Martin Amis
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the… — Henry Adams
And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide… — Douglas Adams
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly… — Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry
For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that's-she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when… — Richard Avedon
The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it… — James Lane Allen
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,… — Sigmund Freud
It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore. — Daniel Defoe
Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as… — Jean Monnet
Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments,… — Jerzy Grotowski
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and… — Max Horkheimer
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors,… — Thucydides
I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not mean too much,… — Lleyton Hewitt
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is… — Leo Tolstoy
If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of… — Mike Huckabee
The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for… — Wassily Kandinsky
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality. — Piet Mondrian
I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism. — Glenn Beck
In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the… — Bel Kaufman

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