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• Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.

  Nido R Qubein

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

  Bernard Baruch

  Teacher, Art, Creativity

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• Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Teacher, Science

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

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• I hesitate to add, but I will, that this is fun. God means Christianity to be fun. There is to be a reality of love and communication in the Christian-to-Christian relationship, individually and corporately, which is completely and truly personal.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Fun

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.144, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

  Plutarch

  Men, Evil, Age

  Plutarch, Matthew Morgan (1718). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.223

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• Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sake, Politics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.21, University of Georgia Press

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• Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.

  Thomas Dreier

  Adversity, Talking, Giving

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• Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Eye, Hands

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• But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Men, Long

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.

  Francis Collins

  Science, Anxiety, Evolution

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• I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I'd like to add a little to that goodness.

  Daniel Dennett

  Atheist, Art, Atheism

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• Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Business, Humorous

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• The year is ended, and it only adds to my age;
  Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home.
  Alas, that the trees in this eastern garden,
  Without me, will still bear flowers.

  Su Ting

  Spring, Flower, Home

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• Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

  Raymond Chandler

  Love, Appreciation, Art

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.95, Univ of California Press

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• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

  Lewis Mumford

  Sports, Order, Skills

  "Technics and Civilization" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 6, (sct. 11), 1934.

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• Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score:
  Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.

  Robert Herrick

  Funny, Kissing, Giving

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Taylor & Francis

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• Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Promise, Results

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”

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• Amnesty will not help balance our budget ... In fact, a large-scale amnesty is likely to add trillions of dollars to the debt over time, accelerate Medicare's and Social Security's slide into insolvency and put enormous strain on our public-assistance programs.

  Jeff Sessions

  Balance, Immigration, Dollars

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• A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Generosity, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.95

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• There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Flower, Interesting, Excitement

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.54, Princeton University Press

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• Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

  Lucy Stone

  Numbers, Justice, Fearless

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

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• A fine meal...is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.

  Alexis Lichine

  Wine, Glasses, Gold

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• On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Wine, Night, Ease

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• Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Success, Pride, Science

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• I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith that in the Old Testament, we have a true historical account of the history of the Israelite people.

  Robert Dick Wilson

  Bible, Years, People

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