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| Education is the movement from darkness to light. |
Allan Bloom |
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| In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down. |
Brian Weir |
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| A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. |
John Henry Cardinal Newman |
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| Let us take things as we find them let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. |
John Henry Cardinal Newman |
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| Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. |
John Henry Cardinal Newman |
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| Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. |
Tacitus |
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| It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. |
Tacitus |
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| To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. |
Anna Louise Strong |
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| It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| Never cut what you can untie. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| To teach is to learn twice. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| Children need models more than they need critics. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| Imagination is the eye of the soul. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| Justice is the truth in action. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. |
Jeseph Joubert |
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| There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. |
Jules Renard |
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| There are moments when everything goes well don't be frightened, it won't last. |
Jules Renard |
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| The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. |
Jules Renard |
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| Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. |
Jules Renard |
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| Be modest It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. |
Jules Renard |
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| I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts financial worries. - Journals |
Jules Renard |
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| We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it. |
Jules Renard |
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| If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more. |
Jules Renard |
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| Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. |
Jules Renard |
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| Failure is not the only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others. |
Jules Renard |
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| I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. |
Jules Renard |
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| I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. |
Jules Renard |
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| The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. |
Jules Renard |
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| Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. |
Jules Renard |
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| A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
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| But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. |
John Milton |
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| Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. |
John Milton |
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| Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. |
John Milton |
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| When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well |
John Milton |
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| ... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission. |
John Milton |
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| If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. |
John Milton |
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| None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license. |
John Milton |
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| ...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. |
John Milton |
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| How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year |
John Milton |
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| Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. |
John Milton |
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| The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. |
John Milton |
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| The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. |
John Milton |
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| Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. |
John Milton |
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| He also serves who only stands and waits. |
John Milton |
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| Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. |
John Milton |
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| Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. |
John Milton |
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| He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King. |
John Milton |
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| Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. |
John Milton |
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| The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Winners never quit and quitters never win. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Praise in public criticize in private. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| If you can't accept losing, you can't win. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him |
Vince Lombardi |
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| If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win. And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. |
Vince Lombardi |
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| If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score |
Vince Lombardi |
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| For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. |
Robert Benchley |
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| Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. |
Robert Benchley |
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| An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. |
Robert Benchley |
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| Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony. |
Robert Benchley |
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| It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. |
Robert Benchley |
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| Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. |
Robert Benchley |
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| As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. |
Robert Benchley |
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