To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. Great short quote and quotation by: e e cummings , US poet (1894 – 1962)
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To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else–is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight. Great short quote and quotation by: e.e. cummings ,
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To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect? Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Great short quote and quotation by: Joseph Chilton Pearce ,
To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart. Great short quote and quotation by: Bob Allisat ,
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel McChord Crothers ,
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. Great short quote and quotation by: Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher (1844 – 1900)
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Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. Great short quote and quotation by: John Ashcroft , US politician (1942 – )
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]
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Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. Great short quote and quotation by: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967) , British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 – )
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