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Category: Quotations

  • Quote: Rosalynn Carter

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    If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, and you don’t branch out, you don’t try — you don’t take the risk. — Rosalynn Carter

  • Quote: Benjamin Franklin

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    “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

  • Quote: George Bernard Shaw

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    Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. —George Bernard Shaw

  • Quote: John Keats

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    The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. -John Keats

  • Quote: Thoreau

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    >”Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.” —Thoreau

  • Quote: Albert Einstein

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    “There is only one road to true human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.” — Albert Einstein

  • Quote: George Washington

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    >”Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” —G. Washington January 7, 1790