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• Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, War

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.269, Penguin

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• Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bible, Book, Revelations

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.200, University of Georgia Press

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• Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Mean, Sacrifice

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• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Success, Hard Work, Writing

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• We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

  Winston Churchill

  Tired, Angel

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• I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Fun, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.6618, Delphi Classics

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• Television is a medium. It is neither rare nor well done.

  Bill Moyers

  Fun, Television, Mediums

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• It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think I have. People say I've given people courage. That makes me feel good, but I don't see how I do that. I think my running is a selfish thing. But it provides the challenge that allows me to feel good about myself. How can I expect to do well in other activities if I don't feel good about myself?

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Selfish, Thinking

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• My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.

  Anne Rice

  Crazy, Thinking, Self

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• We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Home, Men

  Remarks at World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 26 Jan. 2003

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• I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

  Nicki Minaj

  Inspirational, Rapper, Play

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• I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.

  James Rollins

  Travel, Crazy, Writing

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• So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

  Richard Dean Anderson

  Running, Travel, Past

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

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• When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

  Alan Perlis

  Funny Inspirational, Giving, Needs

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• Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Military, Almost Done, Youth

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.88

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• Military activities (are) not a role for the United States. There needs to be a number of steps that Maliki and his government must take to demonstrate that he is committed to an inclusive Iraq, something he has not done up to date.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Iraq, Numbers

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• The only feasible solution is a political reconciliation... Mr. President, the time is now to put pressure on the Iraqi government to change. That is our only hope. Sending a contingent of U.S. military personnel, no matter how small, will be counterproductive to that goal. Our presence will send the wrong message to the Malaki government that we will support them despite what they have done and continue to do to destroy the country by alienating the minority populations of Iraq.

  Mike Coffman

  Country, Military, Government

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• If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.

  Joe Manchin

  Military, Iraq, World

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• Basketball is a full court game, so every drill must be done full court.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Jobs, Flying

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• Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Team, Hopefully

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• If a player leaves Marquette and doesn't have some of my blood in him, then I don't think I've done a good job.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Jobs, Player

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• Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Alertness, Get It Done

  "Business Advice From the Sidelines;It's Management By Game Theory" by Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 1996.

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• Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Selfish, Hands

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• I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Passion

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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