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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.


Frederick Douglass

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CHRIS CARTER If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face ...
CONFUCIUS If he was thrown off a ship, they must have thrown off the raft for him to sit on as well, so I don'...
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DONALD TRUMP Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances c...
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THOMAS AQUINAS The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thin...
HUGH STEVENSON TIGNER A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.
VIKRANT PARSAI It works out for you under certain circumstances but not all the time.
KRITHI RAMAMRITHAM He didn't want to come out and we didn't want to take him out. He works his rear end off.
HOWIE HEWITT You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
CASSANDRA CLARE Keep in mind, Eragon, that no one thinks himself a villain, and few make decisions they think are wr...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI So that when man can be in great distress having been betrayed and deserted by all friends he may fi...
BHAGAT SINGH As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may ha...
DADA BHAGWAN The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
JOSEPH ADDISON The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath the...
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ORISON SWETT MARDEN As long as a human being worries about when he will die,and what he has that is his,all of his works...
KABIR A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, tw...
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, t...
GEORGE S. PATTON JR. A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, t...
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mea...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN A pointless, senseless death.’

‘They’re all pointless and senseless, friend. Until ...
STEVEN ERIKSON Of course, he's talented. But he treats art like a business, churning out his works as if he were ba...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS He was arrested today but I do not yet know under what circumstances. He is being held as a suspect.
GEVORG DAVGYAN Our duty is found in the revealed will of God in the Scriptures. Our trust must be in the sovereign ...
JERRY BRIDGES If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have ...
ALEXANDER SMITH A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his...
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BRETT ISAACS When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get o...
OSWALD CHAMBERS As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much ...
DADA BHAGWAN Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
JULIAN S. HUXLEY Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
JULIAN SORRELL HUXLEY Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
JULIAN S. HUXLEY Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience
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DERRICK MASON He may as well have drawn a target on his forehead.
JOHN MITCHELL God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his h...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his...
JOSEPH MORRELL DODGE What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his...
JOSEPH M. DODGE A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Frederick threw well, located his pitches well. He was in total command of the strike zone.
STEVE GRELLER At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings...
AYN RAND Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.
EMMA ROBERTS The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes ...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL He worked out his frustration with life on the creek every morning.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Toni is OK, considering the circumstances. But he will have to follow the races on TV.
HANS PUM A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIP BROOKS Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature o...
SYLVAN BARNET He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long a...
JOHN SELDEN The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the univ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him littl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your present circumstances may seem limited, but you are never limited by your present circumstances...
MISHI MCCOY A warrior…feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But...
DAVID GEMMELL A warrior…feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. Bu...
DAVID GEMMELL For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down...
JOHANNES TAULER Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need work...
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GERRIT SMITH He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a cert...
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GOETHE Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A woman who wants to be treated like a Queen can neither like nor ask a man to go down on his knees ...
ANUJ SOMANY I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.
GEORGINA CHAPMAN The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is a...
JEROME K. JEROME The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or h...
BENJAMIN HARRISON We call on him to represent and respect his constituents, not further his own ego, as he is by remai...
HILARY ARMSTRONG Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C. Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL The ball was really coming out of his hand well. I don't think his arm strength is built up quite en...
DAVE PIEPENBRINK What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI He is a man significantly involved in the community. He is constantly going above and beyond, not ju...
DAVID GORE

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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What s...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle there is no progress.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than t...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thun...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to an...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plo...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about hi...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope....
FREDERICK DOUGLASS [Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; y...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, whe...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciat...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and w...
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I answer: a day that reveals to him,...
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct o...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adve...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS a woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent o...
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BILL DOUGLASS The worst thing that you want out of a situation like this is the perception that you're gouging due...
BILL DOUGLASS As we are going through this crisis, the fundamental laws of economics tend to apply forcefully - if...
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DOUGLASS NORTH Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
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DALE DOUGLASS This is probably not going to meet muster. That seems so preferential that it doesn't seem to me tha...
DEXTER DOUGLASS That's somewhat less a draw than it used to be because of the superb modern communications that we h...
JOHN DOUGLASS When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the p...
DOUGLASS NORTH It's good to be associated with this kind of action, this kind of heroism.
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DOUGLASS NORTH My wife always wanted a front porch.
CRAIG DOUGLASS Her ruling on the request came only seven hours after the deadline for submission, before counties h...
DEXTER DOUGLASS I kept knocking with my fist.
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DALE DOUGLASS If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
DAVID DOUGLASS I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
DOUGLASS NORTH We are aware of the situation. The bulletin was released in January and we've been working to try to...
RICHARD DOUGLASS It's intruding on the local collective bargaining process by enforcing a base salary that wasn't arr...
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DOUGLASS YOUNG I took one step behind the register where the wall was at. When I picked up my other foot, one of th...
DOUGLASS YOUNG I yelled to the others, 'Run to the back, run to the back.'
DOUGLASS YOUNG We take these very seriously because it is upsetting to all of us within recruiting command, because...
DOUGLASS SMITH As an example, you need to have a high school diploma in order to receive the Army College Fund, and...
DOUGLASS SMITH Recruiting is a tough mission, but it's a mission that can be achieved working within the regulation...
DOUGLASS SMITH We're not anticipating they're going to rule against us. We haven't really considered that at this p...
DEXTER DOUGLASS The secretary did not exercise her discretion lawfully in the manner contemplated by this court's di...
DEXTER DOUGLASS We've used different bread recipes, and some of them have been passed from other teachers.
DELPHINE DOUGLASS A variety of vegetables arrive on soup day.
DELPHINE DOUGLASS It's not just our interest in giving children quality nutrition because they deserve it. For childre...
DELPHINE DOUGLASS It feels really good to know we're giving them good food to grow on.
DELPHINE DOUGLASS This bill will set a new minimum, and the minimum becomes the zero step on the salary schedule.
DALE DOUGLASS He kids me about that all the time. He claims it's his putter. It isn't.
DALE DOUGLASS That's the main thing about him. He's a great dad and great granddad.
DALE DOUGLASS Bobby, I know I just shot a 72, but I've had a fantastic and rewarding life and now I'm going out to...
DALE DOUGLASS I’M LOSING FAITH IN MY FAVORITE COUNTRY

Throughout my life, the United States has been ...
STEPHEN DOUGLASS Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
DAVID DOUGLASS I don't see that she's the type of player who's going to sit on the bench her entire freshman year. ...
CRAIG DOUGLASS We know she's a good kid and a good student. Before we even talked about basketball, I decided she w...
CRAIG DOUGLASS I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did n...
DOUGLASS NORTH It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing c...
DOUGLASS NORTH The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own ...
JAMES DOUGLASS It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would delib...
DAVID DOUGLASS However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surfac...
DAVID DOUGLASS As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this fi...
DAVID DOUGLASS One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
DAVID DOUGLASS It is absolutely essential that one should be neutral and not fall in love with the hypothesis.
DAVID DOUGLASS I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have ow...
DOUGLASS NORTH I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
DOUGLASS NORTH I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I su...
DOUGLASS NORTH I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to...
DOUGLASS NORTH I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly ...
DOUGLASS NORTH My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
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DOUGLASS NORTH What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the...
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DOUGLASS NORTH Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
FREDERICK WISEMAN One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
FREDERICK FARRAR Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon myster...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, cripp...
FREDERICK BUECHNER According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones...
FREDERICK TENNYSON "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!'
ADMIRAL FREDERICK The Third Fleet's sunken and damaged ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward ...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!
ADMIRAL FREDERICK There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are fo...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell!
ADMIRAL FREDERICK I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
ADMIRAL FREDERICK There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by cir...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to de...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in larg...
FREDERICK SAUNDERS Everybody prays whether you think of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when someth...
FREDERICK BUECHNER A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. Al...
FREDERICK SMITH Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips ov...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts y...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec...
FREDERICK BUECHNER One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
FREDERICK FARRAR Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he ...
FREDERICK BAILES Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra...
FREDERICK KEONIG The key to your universe is that you can choose.
CARL FREDERICK Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, ...
FREDERICK TENNYSON We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same que...
FREDERICK KEONIG I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ...
FREDERICK PERLS In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar...
FREDERICK BUECHNER A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicio...
FREDERICK POLLOCK What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thi...
FREDERICK TENNYSON Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
FREDERICK SMITH The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
FREDERICK SMITH Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a...
FREDERICK SODDY Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
FREDERICK SANGER My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small Am...
FREDERICK REINES After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advan...
FREDERICK SANGER As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo...
FREDERICK WEISEL Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles...
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