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• Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.

  Emily Dickinson

  Journey, Feet, Odd

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.198, First Avenue Editions

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• It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Government, Spy

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• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  Edgar Quinet

  Past, Law, Humanity

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• I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

  James K. Polk

  Presidential, Sovereign, Servant

  Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.331, Best Books on

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• An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

  Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Men

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• I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

  Edgar Quinet

  Satisfaction, Infinity, Mistrust

  Edgar Quinet (1845). “Ultramontanism: Or, The Roman Church and Modern Society”, p.72

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• The affluent society has built well in terms of economic progress, but has neglected the protection of the very water we drink as well as the values of fish and wildlife, scenic, and outdoor recreation resources. Although often measureless in commercial terms, these values must be preserved by a program that will guarantee America some semblance of her great heritage of beautiful rivers.

  Frank Church

  Beautiful, Rivers, America

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• Short term memory makes no difference if you've lost your mind.

  Ellis

  Memories, Differences, Mind

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• The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.

  JR

  Team, Keys, Skills

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• No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.

  John Muir

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• We who are privileged to be in these chambers today can view the challenges we face as opportunities, not as reasons for despair. We can do this only if we blend our independent spirits in terms of reverence for the life and respect for nature. Each of you might suggest different words, but our goal certainly is the same: a better Oregon.

  Tom McCall

  Independent, Opportunity, Views

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• Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

  Eugene O'Neill

  War, Pride, Old Wounds

  Eugene O'Neill (1995). “Three Plays”, Vintage

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• Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors.

  Will Rogers

  People, Nuisance, Causes

  Will Rogers (1974). “The Illiterate Digest”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.

  Henry Clay

  War, Years, Views

  Henry Clay (1863). “The Works of Henry Clay”, p.468

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• Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Party, Good Friend

  'The Illiterate Digest' (1924) 'Breaking into the Writing Game'

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• Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Healing, Thinking, Medicine

  Smiley Blanton, Norman Vincent Peale (1955). “Faith is the Answer: A Pastor and a Psychiatrist Discuss Your Problems”

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• Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they are very inaccessible in terms of physical proximity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Enlightened, Proximity

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• If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Destiny, Enlightenment

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• To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Skills

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.302, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Believe, Differences

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.569, Simon and Schuster

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• American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Fighting, Class, Race

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• If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, War, Heart

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 98), 1966.

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• Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• There are guys, the weekenders, who can go out and get loaded and they're having fun and partying - which is a term I deplore, partying - and it's all recreational and they're having a ball. I never had that. It was never about recreation. Not. Ever. That was never my motivation. Not once!

  Johnny Depp

  Fun, Motivation, Party

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