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"The champions of liberty have the medal for any necklace." »Charles de LEUSSE
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"Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter." »Joseph Addison
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"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising." »J. Todd
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism." »Robert Hutchins
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"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." »Edward Dowden
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"Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction." »The Hitopadesa
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"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Depend not on fortune, but on conduct." »Publilius Syrus
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess." »Mark Twain
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"Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family." »Jewish Proverb
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"The beauty of a statue is in its outward form of a man in his conduct." »Demophilus
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"We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations." »Benjamin Netanyahu
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"The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own." »The Talmud
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"The beauty of a statue is in its outward form; of a man in his conduct." »Demophilus
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"Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast." »Epictetus
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble." »Samuel Johnson
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"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." »Japanese Proverb
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"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity." »Horace Mann
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"When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct." »Thomas Jefferson
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"One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct." »Sterne
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"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world." »Sigmund Freud
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"My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." »Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532
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