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...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than u... 
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is
what we believe. What we believe is b... 
Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is b... 
All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities. 
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst... 
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and... 
We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual lib... 
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon me... 
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon... 
Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends ... 
Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tel... 
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the ... 
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in th... 
We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly a... 
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to s... 
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they h... 
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they h... 
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in a... 
Human willingness to believe precedes their ability to think. 
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. 
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more tr... 
Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon th... 
The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, thoug... 
Sometimes, impossibility isn't about defying reason,
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists ... 
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ... 
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than th... 
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than th... 
No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simpl... 
How glorious, then, is the prospect, the reverse of all the past, which is now opening upon us, and ... 
The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims. 
Happiness depends upon ourselves. 
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion o... 
Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important el... 
Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. 
The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the s... 
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellin... 
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them... 
Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of
our friends upon them. 
The future depends upon what we do in the present. 
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their ... 
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their ... 
Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, ... 
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today... 
The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health a... 
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to th... 
And so much depends, I told Augustus, upon a blue sky cut open by the branches of the trees above. S... 
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will... 
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends. 
God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends 
There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depend... 
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its... 
So much depends upon this observer of the universe. 
By faith you can release the promises of the Lord upon yourself 
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. 
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was... 
I'm encouraged in that I believe that both sides expressed a willingness to be more flexible in look... 
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our f... 
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we me... 
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we me... 
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends
far more on the way we me... 
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres... 
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres... 
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached ... 
We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu... 
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being edu... 
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which... 
The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ... 
We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&... 
Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going ... 
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p... 
The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. 
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the wor... 
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is. 
We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. 
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot. 
I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or b... 
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. 
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen. 
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. 
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. 
If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I... 
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season,... 
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. 