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SALLY PHILLIPS I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
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SALLY PHILLIPS I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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WENDELL PHILLIPS Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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AL PHILLIPS It was just a matter of improvising after that.
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ALAN PHILLIPS If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
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ADAM PHILLIPS One on God's side is a majority.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Yeah, I guess you could say that. We broke a lot of stuff.
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ALEX PHILLIPS It was a good experience. I'm glad I did it.
ALEX PHILLIPS We were just hanging out together like we used to do.
ALEX PHILLIPS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
WENDELL PHILLIPS To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
BUM PHILLIPS It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception doe...
MAUREEN PHILLIPS If you see the bandwagon you've missed it.
JAMES PHILLIPS Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS If you can't believe in God, chances are your God is too small.
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JAMES PHILLIPS Christianity is a battle not a dream.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The only discipline that last is self discipline.
BUM PHILLIPS The keener the want the lustier the growth.
WENDELL PHILLIPS What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The heart is the best reflective thinker.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
JULIA PHILLIPS I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
PHILLIPS BROOKS A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
WENDELL PHILLIPS Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broad...
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Revolutions are not made, they come.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Revolutions never go backward.
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PHILLIPS BROOKS What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Responsibility educates.
WENDELL PHILLIPS If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Aristocracy is always cruel
WENDELL PHILLIPS Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Cong...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: t...
WENDELL PHILLIPS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
EMO PHILLIPS All the world's a cage.
JEANNE PHILLIPS What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
WENDELL PHILLIPS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
WENDELL PHILLIPS I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I...
DAN PHILLIPS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here...
JEANNE PHILLIPS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
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