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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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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of north America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of north America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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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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"It is the great north wind that made the Vikings." »Scandinavian Proverb
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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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"In the middle of the north Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you know the north, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The north was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." »Jefferson Davis
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"West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; north is too cold; South is too loose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)" »Ronald Reagan
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"If you know the north, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and north Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth" »Edward H. S. Terry
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"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." »Confucius
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"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war. (On ordering retaliatory action against north Vietnam)" »Lyndon B. Johnson
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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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"Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world." »Euripides
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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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"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." »Johann von Goethe
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"If hell uses highly refined uranium and completely pure hydrogen to stoke its fires, the roaring furnaces there will still be too cold for these depraved beings. (Speaking about the leaders of north Korea...)
read about it here: http://standfortheright.com/archives/540" »Dan Flikweert
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition." »Richard Clark
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"In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock." »Thomas Jefferson
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." »Brian Tracy
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"The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion." »Auguste Renoir
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"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by north Vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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