Robert Baden-Powell Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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I still find the best way to understand a hospitalized patient whose care I am taking over is not by staring at the computer screen but by going to see the patient; it's only at the bedside that I can figure out what is important.
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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
