Herbert Spencer Quotes

The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

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• I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
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• I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

  

  R. L. Stine
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• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
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• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  

  Harold Warner
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• The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

  

  Patricia Marx
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• Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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• Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

  

  Dan Quayle
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• Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?

  

  Edmund Spenser
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• Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

  

  Arthur Miller
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• He's working a lot harder than I am. I tell these people that we really appreciate what they're doing for us.

  

  Mark Kelly
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• Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

  

  Frederick Soddy
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• I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

  

  Bryan Clay
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• Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
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• We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.

  

  Sarah Wright
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• I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.

  

  James McAvoy
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• The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.

  

  Herbert Spencer
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