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• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Opportunity, Men

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Money, Libertarian, Income

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Humor, Literature

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

  Thomas Paine

  Gun, Order, Law

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

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• Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Courage, Adequacy, Absence

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• Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

  Al Lopez

  Team, Player, Goal

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• If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

  Steve Lacy

  Stars, Giving Up, People

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• The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

  Jim Talent

  Marriage, Strong, Hurt

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• The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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• I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

  Michael Imperioli

  Believe, Dumb, Would Be

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• It wouild be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, 'Yes, it is true, but you won't be able to understand the proof.' John Horgan.

  Ronald Graham

  Understanding, Lines, Able

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• I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

  Michael Enzi

  Used, Taxes, Sales Tax

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• Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Success, Courage, Work

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Laura Berman Fortgang (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much More”, p.15, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sound, Libertarian, Prosperity

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• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strength, Strong, Don't Give Up

  "The Industrial Decalogue" (1916). These "ten cannots" are frequently, but falsely, attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

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• You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Limited Government

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• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Courage

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• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

  Umberto Eco

  Limits, Humiliating

  "We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Journey, Joy

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

  Ian Mckellen

  Writing, People, Trying

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• Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

  Lucas Papademos

  Justice, Delay, Speed

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• As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Opportunity, Men, Good Man

  "Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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• Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Connections, Different, Literature

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.147, Cambridge University Press

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• Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Libertarian, Helping

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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