Richard M. DeVos Quotes
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
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When you left on Saturday, I felt a horrible void, I saw you everywhere, on the beach, in your room, in the garden: impossible for me to get used to the idea that you had left.
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Nothing is impossible for pure love.
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I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.
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I don't believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans aren't that desperate for victory. I don't want to see the Republican party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people.
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
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Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites.
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Everything we thought and felt in that past period ought to be deposited in an archive, and a new type of human being created.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you.
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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
