"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."

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"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images."

Huey Newton, American Activist

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"I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way."

Jimmy Wales, American Businessman

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"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!"

Jenny Agutter, English Actress

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"I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district."

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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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"Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man."

George Crook, American Soldier

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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."

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"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."

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"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

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"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

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"Power is not alluring to pure minds."

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"The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins."

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"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God."

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"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."

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"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."

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"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."

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