Orison Swett Marden Quotes
What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
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The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
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You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God's hour had come, did not a solution, light, and deliverance come quite unexpectedly, perhaps quite differently than you thought?
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For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
