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• Toil, and be strong; by toil the flaccid nerves
  Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone:
  The greener juices are by toil subdued,
  Mellow'd, and subtilis'd; the vapid old
  Expell'd, and all the rancor of the blood.

  John Armstrong

  Strong, Blood, Vapid

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• To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Firsts, Twenties

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• To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

  Sallust

  Friendship, Desire, Aversion

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• It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.

  Judith Martin

  Order, Departure, Guests

  Judith Martin (1989). “Miss Manners' guide for the turn-of-the-millennium”

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• Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Belief

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.412

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• If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.

  Francis Quarles

  Faith, Exercise, Doubt

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• The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

  Hannah More

  Education, Character, Race

  Hannah More (1810). “Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals”, p.14

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• Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Sports, Water, Care

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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• Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.

  Ayn Rand

  Ambition, Law, Miracle

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.11, Penguin

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• Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Food, Pigs, Cooking

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2016). “Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations”, p.86, Macmillan

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• It is true fortitude to stand firm against
  All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
  In fear to suffer more calamity.

  Philip Massinger

  Fate, Suffering, Coward

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar (1813). “The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence”, p.375

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• Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Anchors, Law

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• The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.

  Queen Victoria

  Queens, Thinking, Russia

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• I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Stress, Men, Giving

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• In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Use, Advertising

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.38, A&C Black

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• Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

  Jilly Cooper

  Work, Nice, Office

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “How To Survive From Nine To Five”, p.34, Random House

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• That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Loyalty, People, Matter

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.175, Macmillan

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• There are stages in bread-making quite similar to the stages of writing. You begin with something shapeless, which sticks to your fingers, a kind of paste. Gradually that paste becomes more and more firm. Then there comes a point when it turns rubbery. Finally, you sense that the yeast has begun to do its work: the dough is alive. Then all you have to do is let it rest. But in the case of a book the work may take ten years.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

  William Whewell

  Faith, Age, Insight

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• What being among the 'right people' entails is the possession of human capital, rather than organizational capital: an individual reputation, portable skills, and network connections. Career responsibility is squarely in the hands of individuals, a function of their knowledge and networks. Transferable knowledge is more important to a career than firm-specific knowledge.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Work, Responsibility, Hands

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1993). “Men and Women of the Corporation”, p.306, Basic Books

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• Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Power, Law, Resources

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• The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Sex, Taste

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Jealous, Blow, Envy

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• The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

  Robert Haugen

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.

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• My loving children, my children who were created with God's beauty, my wise children, whatever difficulty you may have, do not ever leave His charge. Just as the prophets of God kept their faith firm and were tolerant in spite of the problems they had, no matter what difficulties you may experience, be tolerant, be forbearant and embrace all living things as your own life.

  Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

  Wise, Children, May

  "The Tree That Fell To The West: Autobiography of a Sufi". Book by Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, 2003.

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