If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences , injurious to society , morality.
The reason most people don’t express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It’s what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
I’m grateful this ordeal is over, and I’m so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.
Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
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