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• He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.

  Herman Melville

  Success, Failure, Greatness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow

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• We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Heart, Apology, Listening To Others

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• [If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.

  Abraham Lincoln

  President, Unions, Election

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.359, Transaction Publishers

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• I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians, but at least have an outlet. It's an art form that's easily accessible to young ears.

  Joe Perry

  Art, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Uprising, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.375, Wildside Press LLC

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• As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Political, Wish

  "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.

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• If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

  Martin Van Buren

  Law, Acting, Limits

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.13

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• You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.

  Neal Boortz

  Ideas, Race, Judging

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• Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction.

  Mooji

  Fighting, Discovery, Self

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• I wish they would see the real person in me. One day, they will know I'm not here for the show. My mind do shine. My heart is so kind. But that they can not see because all they see is the outside of me. Who I am, what I do is only the reaction I get from you.

  Herschel Walker

  Real, Heart, Who I Am

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• To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.

  Emily Post

  Sports, Games, Irritation

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.529, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.

  William Whipple

  Navy, Opinion, Advantage

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• There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Men, Wit

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Lady of Quality”, p.92, ShandonPress

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• Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it can not be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to ME, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Communication, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.2

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• To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in matters of religion'. The many Muslims I respect would be horrified by the idea that they belong to their faith purely by virtue of birth, and that a person who freely chose not to be a Muslim could therefore be put to death.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ideas, Religion, Islam

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• I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.

  Elton John

  Past, Player, Thinking

  "A Q&A With Elton John". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. November 16, 2004.

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• You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

  George Sand

  Freedom, Thinking, Silence

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• Cheerfulness is a debt we owe to society, in the paying of which we receive a generous discount. We can not open our hearts to give out cheer without more cheer rushing in to take its place.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Cheer, Heart, Rushing

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• Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
  [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Virtue

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• I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

  Bobbejaan Schoepen

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• Essayists must not only be succinct but have original ideas and, even harder to come by, or to fake, likable voices. Consciously or not, they endeavor to win us over by charm. If an essayist can not only charm but write the unforgettable sentence, one that reveals the heart in a few words, I'm her slave.

  Cyra McFadden

  Writing, Heart, Winning

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• Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
  [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Water, Wickedness, Stains

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• The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and on all side round, may be perhaps be imagined but can not be described.

  Sarah Siddons

  Space, May, Awful

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• I can not watch either of the "Paranormal" films alone.

  Katie Featherston

  Watches, Film, Paranormal

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

  Dave Navarro

  Moving, Car, Erotic

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