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"People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there." "Bob" Robert Alan Edwards Rate this Quote
"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this." "Joe" 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too." (Carl) Frederick Buechner 4.9231 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (John) Calvin Coolidge 4.8873 average rating Rate this Quote
"Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first." (Justin) Brooks Atkinson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." (Justin) Brooks Atkinson 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them." (Karl) Gunnar Myrdal Rate this Quote
"The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them." (Karl) Gunnar Myrdal Rate this Quote
"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant." (Sarah) Margaret Fuller 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies." 1 Timothy 1:4 Bible: New Testament Rate this Quote
"It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti Rate this Quote
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." Abraham Lincoln 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings." Abraham Maslow Rate this Quote
"Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living." Abraham Joshua Heschel 3.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors; if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed." Akhenaton 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." Al Capp 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world." Albert Camus 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear." Albert Camus 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable." Albert Einstein 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
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