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Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other. — John D. Rockefeller
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. — John Dryden
We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs. — Weston La Barre
I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you...I think that it's time to take… — Margaret Cho
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. — Charles Lamb
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. — Frank Herbert
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain
Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write,… — Herman Melville
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to… — Albert Einstein
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built. — William H. Masters
In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material… — Adolf Hitler
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the… — George Orwell
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. — Woodrow Wilson
I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the… — Faith Baldwin
The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do. — Donald Barthelme
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist. — David Mamet
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the… — Ted Kooser

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