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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should ...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutali...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yours...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small dif...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit sh...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, it...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Right reason is stronger than force.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a bra...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

I am a poor hater.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce....
JAMES A. GARFIELD

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Suicide is not a remedy.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerc...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

Ideas control the world.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no rem...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing tha...
JAMES A. GARFIELD

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
JAMES A. GARFIELD

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
JAMES GARFIELD

Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to ...
JAMES GARFIELD

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
JAMES GARFIELD

Ideas control the world.
JAMES GARFIELD

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
JAMES GARFIELD

Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that b...
JAMES GARFIELD

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
JAMES GARFIELD

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doc...
JAMES GARFIELD

History is the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
JAMES GARFIELD

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convict...
JAMES GARFIELD

I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. G...
JAMES GARFIELD

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...
JAMES GARFIELD

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
JAMES GARFIELD

Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commer...
JAMES GARFIELD

Action expresses priorities.
CHARLES A. GARFIELD

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, ...
CHARLES A. GARFIELD

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.
CHARLES A. GARFIELD

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results...
CHARLES A. GARFIELD

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybo...
CHARLES A. GARFIELD

Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst.
CHARLES A. GARFIELD

I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. Th...
CHARLES A. GARFIELD

It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
CHARLES A. GARFIELD

Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a for...
CHARLES A. GARFIELD My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.
JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD Tortured for the Republic. [Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.]
JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst
CHARLES GARFIELD

As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.
ANDREW GARFIELD I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention...
JOHN GARFIELD

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressin...
ANDREW GARFIELD There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all togeth...
JOHN GARFIELD Extreme Makeover: White House Edition.
BOB GARFIELD Marketers are desperate to find ways to reach people. Especially young men, who are far too busy pla...
BOB GARFIELD We have a point of view on most stories that we do, but we're not ideological, ... We're not a show ...
BOB GARFIELD Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your frie...
BOB GARFIELD Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your frie...
BOB GARFIELD

Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fel...
ANDREW GARFIELD Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results...
CHARLES GARFIELD When I think back, the neighbors were always sayin', 'Oh, that poor Julie, that poor orphan....
JOHN GARFIELD Must I tell the story of my life again?
JOHN GARFIELD Reading is important.
JOHN GARFIELD I know a playwright with a forty-thousand-dollar house in Beverly and he's miserable.
JOHN GARFIELD Panic was the death of thought.
LEON GARFIELD A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, ...
CHARLES GARFIELD Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a for...
CHARLES GARFIELD I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. Th...
CHARLES GARFIELD The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybo...
CHARLES GARFIELD Do not compete with anyone except yourself
CHARLES GARFIELD I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirel...
JOHN GARFIELD That?s our goal -- to make the tournament. We?re almost there. We?re so close, it is surreal. I felt...
GARFIELD YUILLE Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions
CHARLES GARFIELD It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
CHARLES GARFIELD Type has rhythm, just like music.
SIMON GARFIELD Adventure responds to your call.
GARFIELD WHYTE

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if...
ANDREW GARFIELD

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.
ANDREW GARFIELD Vooralsnog hebben e-mails niet hetzelfde effect in een verhaal, omdat e-mails niet worden aangetroff...
SIMON GARFIELD There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accord...
JOHN GARFIELD We're not gonna let one loss get our confidence down. We're still gonna be confident. We know we mad...
GARFIELD BLAIR You could feel it slipping away. I really thought we could have come back had we adjusted to their 3...
GARFIELD BLAIR It was a winnable game. But we knew if we made the same mistakes we made in the first half and didn'...
GARFIELD BLAIR I?m excited. I can?t wait to play the basketball game. We know at this time of year, it?s one and do...
GARFIELD YUILLE (Myrick) is something else and he?s been doing that all year.
GARFIELD YUILLE If we play our game, we should be OK.
GARFIELD YUILLE I think our conditioning played a big part today. We knew if we kept the pace up, we would wear them...
GARFIELD YUILLE We just have to keep our focus and stay disciplined. We were disciplined last season, but not as dis...
GARFIELD YUILLE We got the whole team involved today. That?s what we wanted. This is the kind of game we wanted. We ...
GARFIELD YUILLE They're young. They're willing to learn which I love the best, and they get better everyday.
GARFIELD WHITE Actually to be honest with you, I know we are, I know we are.
GARFIELD WHITE So again another young guy stepping forward.
GARFIELD WHITE We're very young but at the same time there's a lot of raw, natural talent we're trying to groom. Fo...
GARFIELD WHITE So for us at the end of the season that's two teams that we're going to be right with, or certainly ...
GARFIELD WHITE Every year we seem to be getting better at it. It's fun and it's gratifying when you watch the kids ...
GARFIELD WHITE We have it all to do but are not out of contention. We shall keep going right to the end.
GARFIELD EWINGS It's always tough down there so we need to get among them.
GARFIELD EWINGS After 90 minutes there were puddles of water all over the pitch. It was a real battle but nonetheles...
GARFIELD EWINGS Things are just not going our way.
GARFIELD EWINGS We were missing quality in the box. And, unfortunately, we got caught a bit flat-footed for their wi...
GARFIELD EWINGS I think what we've seen this morning is a knee-jerk reaction to exactly what's been happening over t...
GARFIELD DUNLOP While we were debating the bill, we could have been making amendments to that bill, adding sections ...
GARFIELD DUNLOP I would hope that would be a high priority for all police services and all ministries across this co...
GARFIELD DUNLOP The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain ...
JAMES A. FORBES

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was cor...
A. JAMES CLARK We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep...
A. JAMES CLARK I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and sho...
A. JAMES CLARK My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of...
A. JAMES CLARK My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
A. JAMES CLARK It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
A. JAMES CLARK The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work...
A. JAMES CLARK When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
A. JAMES CLARK I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
A. JAMES CLARK

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bomb...
JAMES A. BALDWIN I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.
JAMES A. WORSHAM

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER

I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have conclud...
JAMES A. MICHENER

Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighb...
JAMES A. MICHENER

«И из нее сделали пример, на который мужчины будут ссыл...
JAMES A. MICHENER

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
JAMES A. MICHENER

Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one e...
JAMES A. MURPHY

Let go, let life, and enjoy the journey…!
JAMES A. MURPHY

Just for today, smile a little more. Just for today, ask someone how he or she is really doing. Just...
JAMES A. MURPHY

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
JAMES A. FROUDE

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor an...
JAMES A. MICHENER

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
JAMES A. FROUDE

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Human improvement is from within outward.
JAMES A. FROUDE

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
JAMES A. MICHENER

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
JAMES A. FROUDE

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent...
JAMES A. MICHENER

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow c...
JAMES A. FROUDE

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world...
JAMES A. FROUDE

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
JAMES A. FROUDE

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages tw...
JAMES A. FROUDE

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
JAMES A. FROUDE

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.
JAMES A. BELASCO

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
JAMES A. FROUDE

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
JAMES A. FROUDE

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is alwa...
JAMES A. FROUDE

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
JAMES A. FROUDE

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
JAMES A. FROUDE

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
JAMES A. MICHENER

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
JAMES A. MICHENER

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
JAMES A. FROUDE History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter...
JAMES A. FORUDE

Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.
JAMES A. BELASCO

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice c...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imita...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their So...
JAMES A. LEACH

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connect...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, fo...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than tha...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, fo...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the m...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusias...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immu...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once h...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
JAMES A. BALDWIN

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

People can cry much easier than they can change.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
JAMES A. BALDWIN

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the w...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to ex...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES A. BALDWIN

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Instead of showing visibly distinct alternate identities, the typical DID patient presents a polysym...
JAMES A. CHU

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

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