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"There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. that says enough." »Mother Theresa
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"The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards." »Bhartrihari
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"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." »Sun-tzu
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"When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything." »Mehmet Karagoz
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"A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson
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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely—all your skills, gifts, and energies—in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming." »Warren Bennis, From an article in a meeting industry magazine.
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"I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else." »Geoffrey Neighor
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"What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."" »Victor Hugo
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"Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across." »Guy Kawasaki
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"There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." »Carrie
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"It may be five years from now, but at some point we'll be better than them." »Dan Issel
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"So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain." »Plato
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"Live to the point of tears." »Albert Camus
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"The world is round it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them." »Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing, Page 4 , final paragraph
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"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity." »Alfred Jarry
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"The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away." »John S. Coleman
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"The world is round; it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it." »James 210 Bible
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"At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be." »Vinny Nayak
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"The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." »Peter Ustinov
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"Strain every nerve to gain your point." »Cicero
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"Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view." »George Bush
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"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting." »Amanda Cross
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." »Mortimer Adler
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"I write music with an exclamation point" »Richard Wagner
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