Sidney Lanier (Sidney Clopton Lanier) Quotes
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
Utada Hikaru
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
Rachel Kushner
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I grew up in a town called Subang Jaya, and made a lot of friends from around Kuala Lumpur.
Yuna
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I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
Rachel Cusk
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
Benjamin Cardozo
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You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.
Napoleon Hill
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One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.
Clive Barnes
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Religion is using everything for God.
Henry Ward Beecher
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
Hippocrates
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Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.
R. H. Barlow
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Only where there are graves are there resurrections.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
William James
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
George Bernard Shaw
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The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But the unyielding will of the soldier and the dedication of professional military leaders will not change. Our soldiers can do a great deal more under pressure than people think. You'd have to see them perform in combat to believe it.
George W. Dunaway
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I think this is uncharted territory. They've never had to practice during spring break, but they're happy they're going and ready to play.
J. M. Roberts
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And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.
Aristotle
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
