William Greenough Thayer Shedd Quotes
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
Halsey
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
Warren Bennis
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There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
Jack Nicklaus
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In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.
Vaclav Havel
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Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
Alexander Haig
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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
Coco Chanel
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
Sara Paretsky
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What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
Scarlett Thomas
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Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.
Walt Whitman
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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!
Ernest Renan
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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
Malcolm Gladwell
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For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Earl Nightingale
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A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
