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The civilized man has built a coach,
but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION FEBRUARY 1, 1933
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty
to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation.
It will preserve and defend those basic principles
on which our nation has been built.
It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality,
and the family as the basis of national life....
- Adolf Hitler
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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It is of the small joys and little pleasures
that the greatest of our days are built.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous
When prayer removes distrust and doubt
and enters the field of mental certainty,
it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
- Ernest Holmes
People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
- Elizabeth Warren
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Always forgive your enemies -
nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Hold on with a bulldog grip,
and chew and choke as much as possible.
- Abraham Lincoln
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
The invisible and nonexistent look much alike.
- Delos B. McKown
It was impossible to get a conversation going,
everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra
Morality which depends upon the helplessness
of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.
Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
You can always tell when a man's well informed.
His views are pretty much like your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper
is that your guests are so pleased
to feel how very much better they are.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.
- Epictetus
Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
- Victor Hugo
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Indifference and neglect often
do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J. K. Rowling
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
We are all so much together,
but we are all dying of loneliness.
- Albert Schweitzer
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.
- Helen Keller
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Often it does not matter so much what we choose,
but that we do choose.
- Alan Cohen
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment
if you don't trust enough.
- Frank Crane
He who would accomplish much must sacrifice much.
- James Allen
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days government had better
get out of their way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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