"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."

Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant

Being, Consequences, Country, Honor

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"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Being, Feeling, Words

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Being, Nothing, Respect

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship."

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"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."

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"Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson."

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"We must be loyal to the forum of our government."

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"And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character."

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"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval."

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"The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

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"America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty."

"A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare."

"Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects."

"The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship."

"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."

"Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson."

"We must be loyal to the forum of our government."

"And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character."

"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval."

"The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country."