Brenna Yovanoff Quotes
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We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
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An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
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Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice.
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When children do not have three square meals a day, a proper education, and at least one adult who they know loves and is committed to them, its very unlikely they will grow up to be productive citizens of the world.
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At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.
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So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.
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I think we're infinite beings. We have to stay limitless.
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I think each person is born with a limitless potential.
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They'll never truly be able to comprehend how much was lost for their limitless sky.
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Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns.
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Who ever thought that the world-famous Captain Obvious was really mild-mannered Colin Mochrie?
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Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
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Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway
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Eldest thinks power is control, that the best way to be a leader is to force everyone into obedience. Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to other so that they may have the strength to stand on their own. This is what I've been looking for since the first day I was told that I was born to lead this ship. Leading Godspeed has nothing to do with being better than everyone else, with commanding and forcing and manipulating. Eldest isn't a leader. He's a tyrant. A leader doesn't make pawns-he makes people.
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Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.
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I'm going to stay true. I'm going to stay true to my values.
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Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.
