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I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]


James Abram Garfield

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My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.
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JAMES GARFIELD If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
JAMES GARFIELD Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commer...
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JAMES A. GARFIELD Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutali...
JAMES A. GARFIELD All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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JAMES A. GARFIELD Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
JAMES A. GARFIELD The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
JAMES A. GARFIELD I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small dif...
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JAMES A. GARFIELD History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Right reason is stronger than force.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...
JAMES A. GARFIELD If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a bra...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
JAMES A. GARFIELD I am a poor hater.
JAMES A. GARFIELD The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce....
JAMES A. GARFIELD He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation
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JAMES A. GARFIELD The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil
JAMES A. GARFIELD Suicide is not a remedy.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerc...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Ideas control the world.
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JAMES A. GARFIELD It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing tha...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
JAMES A. GARFIELD I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
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LESTER ABRAM Every time it seemed like we were coming back or could come back, they got a blocked shot or we took...
LESTER ABRAM It was OK. But Courtney messed it up. Our free throw shooting definitely carried us.
LESTER ABRAM If the ref called charging than it's a charge. I have no arguments with that.
LESTER ABRAM We had a step in the right direction, but I don't accept moral victories or anything like that.
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PHILIP ABRAM Even if I?m not feeling well that day, the other guys will step it up big. Usually when we are setti...
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ANDREW GARFIELD Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results...
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JOHN GARFIELD Must I tell the story of my life again?
JOHN GARFIELD Reading is important.
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JOHN GARFIELD Panic was the death of thought.
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SIMON GARFIELD Adventure responds to your call.
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ANDREW GARFIELD I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.
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GARFIELD BLAIR You could feel it slipping away. I really thought we could have come back had we adjusted to their 3...
GARFIELD BLAIR It was a winnable game. But we knew if we made the same mistakes we made in the first half and didn'...
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GARFIELD YUILLE (Myrick) is something else and he?s been doing that all year.
GARFIELD YUILLE If we play our game, we should be OK.
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GARFIELD YUILLE We just have to keep our focus and stay disciplined. We were disciplined last season, but not as dis...
GARFIELD YUILLE We got the whole team involved today. That?s what we wanted. This is the kind of game we wanted. We ...
GARFIELD YUILLE They're young. They're willing to learn which I love the best, and they get better everyday.
GARFIELD WHITE Actually to be honest with you, I know we are, I know we are.
GARFIELD WHITE So again another young guy stepping forward.
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GARFIELD WHITE Every year we seem to be getting better at it. It's fun and it's gratifying when you watch the kids ...
GARFIELD WHITE We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.
GARFIELD EWINGS It's always tough down there so we need to get among them.
GARFIELD EWINGS After 90 minutes there were puddles of water all over the pitch. It was a real battle but nonetheles...
GARFIELD EWINGS Things are just not going our way.
GARFIELD EWINGS We were missing quality in the box. And, unfortunately, we got caught a bit flat-footed for their wi...
GARFIELD EWINGS I think what we've seen this morning is a knee-jerk reaction to exactly what's been happening over t...
GARFIELD DUNLOP While we were debating the bill, we could have been making amendments to that bill, adding sections ...
GARFIELD DUNLOP I would hope that would be a high priority for all police services and all ministries across this co...
GARFIELD DUNLOP A land without ruins is a land without memoriesa land without memories is a land without history.
ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN A land without ruins is a land without memories -- a land without memories is a land without history...
ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN A Garden is a Friend You Can Visit Anytime
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ABRAM SAMOILOVITCH BESICOVITCH A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history
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ABRAM L. URBAN Action expresses priorities.
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CHARLES A. GARFIELD Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
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JAMES ST. JAMES The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
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JAMES ST. JAMES I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
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JAMES ST. JAMES I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
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