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Vince Lombardi
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
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Whitheead
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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John Watson
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
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Abraham Lincoln
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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Francis Bacon
I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
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John Ernst Steinbeck
There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.
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W. L. George
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
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Georges Rouault
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
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Adrian Mitchell
Most people ignore most poetry because
most poetry ignores most people.
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Homer, The Iliad
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
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