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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Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
Author:
Hillary Clinton
Subject:
American First Lady Quotes   
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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Author:
Jim Morrison
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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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Honor is the reward of virtue.
Author:
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Subject:
Honor   
Virtue   
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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
Author:
Marilyn Monroe
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Democracy passes into despotism.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Democracy   
Dictatorship   
Cruel   
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Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Intellect   
Patience   
Wealth   
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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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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Experience   
History   
Learning   
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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Forgiveness   
Revenge   
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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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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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Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Author:
Sophocles
Subject:
Judgment   
Good   
Quotes from Plays   
Work: Ajax
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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Technology   
Science   
Nature   
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Author:
Frederick Douglass
Subject:
Adversity   
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Evil   
Ignorance   
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The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.
Author:
Bill Clinton
Subject:
American Presidential Quotes   
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I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
Author:
George W. Bush
Subject:
American Presidential Quotes   
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