"My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."

Attitude, Dream, Hope, Despair, Theory

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"My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair."

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"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Feeling bored is a childish attitude.You wouldn't feel so if you don't relyon somebody to change your feeling."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Cynicism is one of the terrible obstacles to progress."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Sometimes you just have to have a can-do fuck you attitude."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"It is important to take the seriousness out of things that do not deserve it. Take the seriousness out of it, and the thing loses its power."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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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."

Science, Ignorance, Values, Truth

"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

Cause, Effect, Change, History

"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

Friendship, Alliance, Name

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

Freedom, Religion, Law, Equality

"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."

Religion, Christianity, Doctrine, Faith

"One man with courage is a majority."

Courage, Majority, Man

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."

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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."

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"The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them."

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