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All Quotes Collection

"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
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"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
107

"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
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"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."
39


"That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part."
17

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."
20

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
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"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."
17

"Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher."
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"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
25

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
15

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
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"Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science."
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"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."
28

"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
27

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
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"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
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"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around."
86

"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
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"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."
37

"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."
47

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."
28

"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."
137

"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."
14

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
15

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
16

"Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil."
48

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."
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