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Most Accessed Quotes in our system - 821 to 840
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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
Subject:
Wisdom
Excellence
Maturity
Work: Maxims
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Democracy passes into despotism.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Democracy
Dictatorship
Cruel
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Honor is the reward of virtue.
Author:
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Subject:
Honor
Virtue
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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Justice
Work: Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Evil
Ignorance
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Author:
Frederick Douglass
Subject:
Adversity
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Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that know not victory or def
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
Subject:
Sports & Competition
American Presidential Quotes
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
Subject:
Stupidity
Democracy
Honesty
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Capitalism
Business
British Prime Minister Quotes
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Criticism
Assist
American Presidential Quotes
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Mankind
Respect
Sarcasm
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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Talent does what it can, genius does what it must.
Author:
Al Gore
Subject:
Genius
American Vice President Quotes
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellati
Author:
George Washington
Subject:
Friendship
American Presidential Quotes
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Education
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Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Author:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Subject:
Life
Work: Faust
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Curiosity
Talent
Idea
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Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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