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"He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success." »Albert Pike
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"General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." »Benjamin Franklin
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"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone." »Ayn Rand
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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse." »John Locke
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"The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life." »C. H. Cooley
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." »Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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"Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world." »Euripides
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"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." »Johann von Goethe
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it." »John Dewey
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"I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name." »Paula Poundstone
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"account no man happy till he dies." »Euripides
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"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it." »John Dewey
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"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest." »Professor Irwin Corey
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." »Douglas Adams
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"Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness." »M. Hirschfield
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"I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him." »Goethe
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"Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment." »Christopher Darlington Morley
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"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account." »Haniel Long
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"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." »The Talmud
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"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." »Oscar Wilde
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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created." »Brenda Ueland
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"Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account." »Hannah Whitall Smith
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"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things." »John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
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"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last." »Joseph F. Newton
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms." »George Eliot
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