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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Born:
1780
Died:
1832
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Abraham Lincoln
Time
Freedom
Destruction
Spring
Nation
Live
Suicide
Approach
Our
Danger
Ourselves
Must
All-Time
Abroad
Point
Through
Come
Reach
Answer
Lot
Up
Author
Expected
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Cannot
Then
Us
Ever
Amongst
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Orson Welles
Love
Friendship
Alone
Illusion
Love And Friendship
Live
Our
Our Love
Born
Only
Through
Die
Create
Moment
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love
Forgiveness
Best
Good
Hate
Enemies
Evil
Power
Our
Worst
Must
Prone
Some
Develop
He
Maintain
Devoid
Discover
Forgive
To Love
Capacity
Us
Less
Who
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Problems
Thinking
Our
We Cannot
Solve
Same
Cannot
Them
Created
Used
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus
Wisdom
God
Heart
Grace
Will
Drop
Own
Pain
Despair
Our
Must
He
Learns
Falls
Forget
Cannot
Against
Us
Who
Even
Suffer
Awful
Sleep
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
Future
Stars
Our
Destiny
Ourselves
Hold
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
Politics
Future
Blame
Responsibility
Past
Own
Our
Seek
Democratic
Accept
Answer
Fix
Republican
Us
Let Us
Right
Right Answer
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
Freedom
Generation
Our
Must
More
Never
Protected
Pass
Handed
Bloodstream
Than
Same
Children
Them
Fought
Away
Extinction
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil Gibran
Experience
Long
Before
Our
Joys
Sorrows
Them
Choose
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
Motivational
Time
Try
Giving
Giving Up
Our
Way
Weakness
Lies
More
Most
Greatest
Always
Up
Just
Just One
Succeed
Certain
Certain Way
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