Abigail Adams Quotes
Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
Abigail Adams
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
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Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.
Xenophon
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
Abby Wambach
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
Jacki Weaver
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My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.
Foxy Brown
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Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
Ted Dexter
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
Patrick Stewart
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The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
Ian Hislop
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Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.
Jack Canfield
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The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."
Lao Tzu
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When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.
William Galston
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Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.
Amanda de Cadenet
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[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.
I. L. Peretz
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In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.
Ejnar Hertzsprung
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
Abigail Adams
