Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
Ramana Maharshi
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
Barry McGee
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
Iris DeMent
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I seek solutions, not battles.
Kate Brown
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When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.
Irina Shayk
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
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We had a miserable first year (6-10 in 2004), and that's real hard on you. So you go in the second year knowing you've got to make something happen. Being able to get 10 wins, that helps a lot. It gives the whole organization confidence. If we hadn't gotten into the playoffs, it would've been a real downer. Getting in the playoffs was somewhat of a turning point for us.
Joe Gibbs
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In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.
Oswald Chambers
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It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.
Harry Callahan
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.
Leopold Kronecker
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In the Han Dynasty, Xiang
Yu was very brave and won
many battles, but in the end
he failed. Treat people with
sincerity and build a good
organization. Otherwise, it
doesn’t matter how famous
or how capable you are.
Li Ka-shing
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The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.
Edith Schaeffer
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Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Without cavalry, battles are without result.
Napoleon Bonaparte
