Edwin Lefevre Quotes
My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But if I cannot advance I do not move at all. I do not mean by this that a man should not limit his losses when he is wrong. He should. But that should not breed indecision.
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I don't care about losses anymore.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.
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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community.
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Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
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The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.
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My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.
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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
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Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.
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To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.
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While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very modest success compared to the advance of the Mohammedan faith in particular- right here in Europe they lose millions and millions of inward adherents who either are alien to all religious life or simply go their own ways. The consequences, particularly from a moral point of view, are not favorable.
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
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If we have not struggled as hard as we can at our strongest how will we sense the shape of our losses or know what sustains us longest or name what change costs us, saying how strange it is that one sector of the self can step in for another in trouble, how loss activates a latent double, how we can feed as upon nectar upon need?
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In the middlegame one should not hesitate to advance a central passed pawn.
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Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.
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Those are two close losses to two very good football teams. If we were blown out, I'd be more concerned
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There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.
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God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.
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Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
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A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
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My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But if I cannot advance I do not move at all. I do not mean by this that a man should not limit his losses when he is wrong. He should. But that should not breed indecision.
