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"Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again." Herman Hesse 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." Eric Hoffer 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." Eric Hoffer 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time." William E. Holler 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends." Homer 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon." Horace 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." Horace 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability." Elbert Hubbard 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes." Aldous Leonard Huxley 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Such prosperity as we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital." Aldous Leonard Huxley 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." Jesse Louis Jackson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?" Henry James 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." William James 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." Thomas Jefferson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose." Denis Johnston 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language." James Earl Jones 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win." Paul Jones 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race." Clarence Jordan 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities." Walt(er) Crawford Kelly 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents." Robert Francis Kennedy 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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