"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world."

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"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world."

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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"If we live in the moment every misery shall fade."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I try to give positive energy in all my shows."

Curtis Jones, American Musician

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"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."

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"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."

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"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."

Leadership

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."

Peace

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

Leadership

"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."

Philosophy

"All authority belongs to the people."

Politics

"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."

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"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."

Wisdom

"Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."

Wisdom