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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Alder
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I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Groucho Marx
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In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
Abraham Lincoln
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Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
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Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
Proverb
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All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.
Dinesh D'Souza
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Muriel Strode
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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
Holly Lisle
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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.
Robinson Jeffers
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
C. S. Lewis
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
Alexander Humboldt
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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana
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America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.
Ernest Hemingway
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Sir Francis Bacon
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein
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The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
Muriel Strode
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For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare
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The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.
John Lennon
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucious
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
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The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
P. J. O'Rourke
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Frederich Nietzsche
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
Ambrose Bierce
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We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C. S. Lewis
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson
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Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
Mae West
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling
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When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Henry Ford
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'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero
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It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
Albert Einstein
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