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Let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it—not the boys less, but the girls more.
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My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.
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There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.
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To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.
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The spirit of personal independence in the women of to-day is sure proof that a change has come.
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What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.
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In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.
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the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step
Confuciusmisattributed·The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics (trans. James Legge)·1891
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Not Confucius. The line is from the Tao Teh King, a different book by a different school, traditionally ascribed to Laozi -- a figure whose very existence historians doubt. Two things drift in the popular version: li becomes miles, and commenced becomes begins with. Legge's 1891 translation, the standard English text for a century, says neither.
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This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
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The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.
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Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.
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Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things.
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The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.
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The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.
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In my opinion no man has had a more profitable difficulty than you have had, if you choose to make use of it as an athlete would deal with a young antagonist.
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At any rate, we were on the move at last, and if dangers and difficulties lay ahead we could meet and overcome them.
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.
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In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.
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To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life.
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Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.
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The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.
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It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
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Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship