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ORISON SWETT MARDEN I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, b...
MARK TWAIN There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, b...
MARK TWAIN I would say 10 percent of fans understand it, which might be more than the people who do it for a li...
RANDY CROSS Our trip to Washington reminded us that there is an idea of justice that we believe is worth fightin...
ALEX EWING I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who wa...
ROBERT FROST No one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The essence of faith … is the idea that that which man wishes actually is: he wishes to be immorta...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happ...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
EMILY DICKINSON There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk wit...
BROTHER LAWRENCE If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that f...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU He whispered, “More than life, more than honor, I love thee.” What do you say when a man whose e...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Behind every great hatred is a love story. For I am a man who has known and tasted love. I say “a ...
JUSTIN CRONIN More than honor, more than life, I love thee." What do you say when a man whose entire existence had...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good frie...
FRANK SINATRA I worked in restaurants and did what I needed to do to act. Theatre is a hard life. It sucks a lot o...
LUSIA STRUS There is more to living than not dying.
CASSANDRA CLARE Consciousness that is not translated into appropriate action is a betrayal of consciousness . . . Li...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good frie...
FRANK SINATRA Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man ...
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DR. SHAILESH THAKER It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is ...
EDMUND MORGAN You have never met a greater man than him. I sincerely mean that.
JAMES HARRIS The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but me...
JOHN AUDUBON I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but me...
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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J.K. ROWLING I Believe that the people who died are living more than we do.
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ARLAINA TIBENSKY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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STEPHEN HAWKING If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are boug...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I do not ask for mercy for myself. The only thing I can see to give me a life sentence is for my fam...
JOSEPH P. SMITH Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
MAYA ANGELOU I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
ISLOM KARIMOV There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the de...
ISAAC ROSENBERG I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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KAJOL I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON Obviously, we need to see the details of all the patients and the adverse events to be able to inter...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I don't think it's a match-up problem. We have two of the best players around. We just didn't execut...
GEORGE WASHINGTON In the second half, we were down and we couldn't get back up.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Unless there's a judge somewhere who is just dying for a case like this, I think it will be put to a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in thei...
GEORGE WASHINGTON In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude
GEORGE WASHINGTON May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all o...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, mor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness
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