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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I b...
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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou...
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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first p...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, show...
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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may...
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ROBERT BADEN-POWELL The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
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JIM LEHRER The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on. - Robert Bloch
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DIETER GUMMER I'm hoping that the state (of Baden Wuerttemberg) will get involved.
DIETER GUMMER Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It works out for you under certain circumstances but not all the time.
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TANG JIAXUAN One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
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A.B. SHEPHERD Smiles well up like bubbles under water and slip across your mouth without you realising its happeni...
CHLOE THURLOW Leave the world in better conditions in wich you found it.
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GIJS DE VRIES has made real progress under difficult circumstances.
JANE HARMAN I won't discuss it under any circumstances.
EDWARD MACMAHON Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night
DAVE BARRY Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
COLLEEN HOOVER Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
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EDMUND BURKE Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, und...
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CONFUCIUS To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, ...
CONFUCIUS To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, ...
CONFUCIUS She is in the very best possible place, all things considered, at this time and in this place under ...
GEORGE PARNHAM Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
HERMANN WEYL Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
MARK TWAIN Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
RUTH GORDON have manufactured nuclear weapons and will retain them under any circumstances.
ARTHUR BROWN Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward cir...
J. DONALD WALTERS Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerou...
IRIS CHANG the best we can get under these circumstances.
TOM DASCHLE The guy made a 50-yard kick under very, very serious circumstances.
BRENDAN TAMAN It's a spectacular challenge to balance your personal life under these circumstances,
GREG BROOKS This is a full-size store with all the bells and whistles. In fact, it's our most popular prototype.
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COLIN POWELL 90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
COLIN POWELL Get mad, then get over it.
COLIN POWELL Experts often possess more data than judgment.
COLIN POWELL To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.
JOHN POWELL Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of...
ANTHONY POWELL Self-love seems so often unrequited.
ANTHONY POWELL But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean l...
COLIN POWELL Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came int...
ANTHONY POWELL Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
COLIN POWELL Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process i...
ANTHONY POWELL Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take...
E.P. POWELL He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai...
ANTHONY POWELL Communication works for those who work at it.
JOHN POWELL By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world t...
JOHN POWELL Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
COLIN POWELL Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
COLIN POWELL Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories o...
COLIN POWELL What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
ELEANOR POWELL More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.
JOHN POWELL There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
COLIN POWELL Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
COLIN POWELL We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousan...
WILLIAM POWELL Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
COLIN POWELL Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
COLIN POWELL A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
COLIN POWELL Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
COLIN POWELL Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that ou...
JONATHAN POWELL Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used...
LUCY POWELL In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade e...
LUCY POWELL The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
COLIN POWELL It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a p...
COLIN POWELL Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they ...
DAWN POWELL I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winni...
COLIN POWELL When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be ...
COLIN POWELL But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you&#...
COLIN POWELL In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a no...
COLIN POWELL If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity wit...
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