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In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
I claim that human mind or human society
is not divided into watertight compartments
called social, political and religious.
All act and react upon one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I claim to be a simple individual liable
to err like any other fellow mortal.
I own, however, that I have humility enough
to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and,
like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year
and of the season of which we are born.
Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
- Carl Jung
When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill
We must be ready to learn from one another,
not claiming that we alone possess all truth
and that somehow we have a corner on God.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It's one of life's great paradoxes ...
Accepting with gratitude whatever life throws at us
is critical to happiness.
Yet without a goal and commitment, life lose much of its value.
The best we can do in the face of this paradox
is to play to win, but be cheerful in defeat
and ready to play again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have ready access to a power beyond my wildest imagination.
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I am ready and willing to seize the opportunities life offers.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has an opinion on many subjects
and is ready to share those opinions -
labeling them as "truth."
Sometimes it is relatively easy
to filter out these opinions.
Upon hearing an ad for the latest
weight-loss powder on late-night TV,
our skepticism leaps to our defense.
However, if we have heard the same opinion for years
from our parents, friends,
government officials, or religious leaders,
we are more likely to believe without questioning
than to raise our filter of skepticism
and ask the hard questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There is also something excellent in every audience,
the capacity of virtue.
They are ready to be beatified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University
and learned within 24 hours to be ready
to speak at the drop of a hat,
and I learned something more, the trustees were expected
to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
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Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
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Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The part can never be well unless the whole is well.
- Plato
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
Gifts freely given are never obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw
Never be stopped by fear or self-pity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
We never NEED anything; we never NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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