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  • "If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it."
    By: Henry Ford
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  • "Without self-respect there can be no genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success – for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own self-respect."
    By: B. C. Forbes
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  • "If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it."
    By: Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
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  • "However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think."
    By: Penelope Fitzgerald
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  • "In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."
    By: Henry Fielding
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  • "Fiat justitia et pereat mundus."
    By: Ferdinand I
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  • "Let justice be done, though the world perish."
    By: Latin:
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  • "If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us."
    By: William Feather
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  • "Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world."
    By: Epictetus
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  • "When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."
    By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • "We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery."
    By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • "There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world."
    By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • "The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne."
    By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • "The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."
    By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • "The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
    By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • "Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world."
    By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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