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"Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man." »Mary Lyon
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"Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them." »Eugene Paul Wigner
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"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still" »J. Paul Getty
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"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going." »Laurence J. Peter
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"Life is a progress, and not a station." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The higher your station, the less your liberty." »Sallust
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"Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble." »Phaedrus
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"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." »Margaret Lee Runbeck
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"train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it." »Charles Dickens
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"If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation..." »Anonymous
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"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money." »Joey Bishop
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"On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky." »Harrison Ford
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"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." »Joseph Addison
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." »Oscar Wilde
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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train." »Amos Bronson Alcott
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"Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by." »Christopher Morley
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"The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors." »Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others." »Tryon Edwards
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"While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives." »Goldsmith
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"In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism." »Charles M. Schwab
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"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves." »U Thant
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"The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled." »Robert Charles Benchley
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"Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy." »Jean Baptiste Montegut
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"When I interview people, and they give me an immediate answer, they're often not thinking. So I'm silent. I wait. Because they think they have to keep answering. And it's the second train of thought that's the better answer." »Robin Leach
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