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"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."	(Arthur) Clive
"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
"When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph."	A. Alvarez
"I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen."	Abd Er-Rahman III
"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."	Albert Einstein
"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."	Andrew Carnegie
"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."	Æschylus
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."	Bernard Mannes Baruch
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year."	Charles Dickens
"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."	Confucius
"If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite."	Dennis McKinsey
"I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."	Epicurus
"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."	General Charles De Gaulle
"Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity."	George Frost Kennan
"I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory."	Georges Jacques Danton
"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."	Grover Cleveland
"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second."	Helen Hunt Jackson
"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."	Henry Clay
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Georges Jacques Danton	George Frost Kennan	Grover Cleveland
Helen Hunt Jackson	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Clay
Herbert Clark Hoover	Herman Hesse	Isaiah 40:1-8 Bible
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jean Cocteau	Jean de La Bruyère
Jean de La Fontaine	Jeb Stuart Magruder	Joe Moore
Johathan Edwards	Jon Kabit-Zinn	Joseph Addison
Kahlil Gibran	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marguerite de Valois	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Midori Koto	Mignon McLaughlin	Napolean Bonaparte
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela	Pan Ku	Paul Gruchow
Pierre Corneille	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert Bridges	Roger Anderson	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
R. J. Baughan	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Walter Besant
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Vartan Gregorian	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
William Blake	William Hallman	W(illiam) Edwards Deming
W. Kelly Griffith	(Arthur) Clive	(John) Calvin Coolidge
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