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To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation. — E. V. Lucas
Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to… — Maxwell Maltz
Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are… — Elihu Root
My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star. — Winston Churchill
The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered. — Dwight L. Moody
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that… — Maria Edgeworth
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life… — Ralph Marston
Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange… — Winston Churchill
Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he… — Sholem Asch
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it. — Samuel Rutherford
When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for… — Thomas Paine
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. — Sun Tzu
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you should… — Jean de Joinville
When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your… — Saadi
The IRS has become morally corrupted by the enormous power which we in Congress have unwisely entrusted to it. Too often it acts like a… — Edward V. Long
The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion — George Washington
I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed. — Alexander Hamilton
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and… — Alexander Hamilton
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from… — Edmund Burke
Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with… — Neville Chamberlain

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