Abdu'l-Bahá Quotes
Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind.
Abdu'l-Bahá
Quotes to Explore
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The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
Nolan Bushnell
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The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
Abraham Lincoln
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.
John Jacob Astor
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
Abraham Lincoln
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One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.
John McCormack
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Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
John McCrae
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In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
Abraham Lincoln
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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
Albert Einstein
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Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose mankind will all agree. The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
Sappho
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Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.
Sarah Fielding
