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All Quotes Collection

"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."
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"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."
11

"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation."
11

"Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity...Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ."
4

"When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish."
6

"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."
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"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."
16

"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."
7

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."
2

"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
4

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
3

"Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
22

"The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison."
9

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."
2

"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
10


"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."
4

"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."
17

"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time."
5

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
4

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
4

"I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board."
22

"A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history."
2

"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."
28

"The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
7

"Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
4

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
4

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
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