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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness
Life
Health
Good
Freedom
Good Health
Result
Depend
Our
Pursuits
Occupation
Greatest
Does
Always
Greatest Happiness
Condition
Just
Which
Placed
Us
Conscience
Chance
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther
God
Lost
Whatever
Possess
Still
Hands
Placed
Them
Held
Many
Things
Voting is our right, but it is also our responsibility because if we don't take the next step and elect leaders who are committed to building a better future for our kids, other rights - our rights to clean air, clean water, health, and prosperity - are placed directly in harm's way.
Tom Steyer
Future
Health
Rights
Water
Better
Prosperity
Voting
Responsibility
Building
Other
Our
Air
Way
Kids
Directly
Better Future
Clean
Clean Air
Clean Water
Take
Step
Leaders
Also
Because
Committed
Placed
Elect
Next
Next Step
Who
Right
Harm
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom
Walk
More
Higher
Placed
Should
Humbly
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Doug Larson
Day
Labor Day
Car
States
Would
Weekend
Were
End
Labor
Placed
United
United States
We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Patrick Henry
God
Alone
Nature
Battle
Strong
Power
Active
Our
Those
Weak
Proper
Make
Sir
Brave
Which
Placed
Means
Use
Vigilant
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Saint Patrick
Me
Compassion
Before
Humiliated
Top
High
Lies
Exalted
He
Like
Came
His
Up
Very
Wall
Stone
Placed
Mighty
Mud
Who
Deep
Raised
You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
Alexander the Great
Nature
You
Nothing
Top
Valor
Way
Diligently
Out
High
Find
Hath
Seek
Shall
Reach
Industry
Question
Placed
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
Abraham Lincoln
Future
Great
Men
Separation
Great Britain
Our
Equal
Practical
Effecting
Placed
Declaration
Created
Use
Assertion
Britain
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil
Made
Crushed
Nothing
Side
Unless
Oneself
Feel
Feels
Crushing
Understand
Oppressed
Person
Human
Human Beings
Happening
Cannot
Placed
Them
Who
Beings
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter Scott
Truth
Will
Faithful
Wreck
Rusty
Nail
Placed
Sway
Compass
Near
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Knowledge
You
People
Allah
Men
Some People
Blessed
Everyone
Secrets
Hidden
Some
Some Men
General
Share
He
Particular
Know
Forbidden
Glorified
Reveal
Been
May
Which
Placed
Whom
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Joseph Stalin
Death
Government
You
Peace
Airplane
Minister
New
Sure
Foreign
His
Begins
Conference
Any
Orders
Placed
Peace Conference
Defend
When placed in command, take charge.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership
Charge
Take
Command
Placed
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
Pope John Paul II
Home
Mother
Soil
Kiss
Duty
Difficult
Consider
Our
Earthly
Sublime
Hands
Placed
Moment
Homeland
Difficult Moment
My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.
Susan Polis Schutz
Life
Love
Depression
Joy
Feeling
Isolation
Prison
Own
Else
Symptoms
Possibly
Hated
Struck
My Own
Could
No-One
Like
Cell
Being
Door
Placed
Much
Filled
Slamming
Shut
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov
Faith
People
Matter
Year
Unfair
Unjust
Else
State
Extreme
Characterized
Embittered
Corrupt
More
More Than Anything
He
Over
Him
Fairness
How
Than
Lack
May
Anything
Anything Else
Placed
Loves
Convict
When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don't hesitate to change, but don't change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future.
Charles M. Schwab
Life
Future
You
Change
Yourself
Overcome
Will
Stronger
Difficulties
Meet
Meeting
Hesitate
Must
Find
Troubles
Arise
Come
Wrongly
Overcoming
Make
Because
Up
Placed
Them
Conquer
Conquering
Start
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
David Brainerd
Work
God
Good
Great
World
Rich
Design
Ourselves
Possibly
Look
Him
Glorify
Faithfully
Always
His
Accordingly
Labour
Placed
Should
Grow
Servants
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Henry George
Man
Light
Power
He
Becomes
May
Influence
Wherever
Placed
Who
Whoever
Thinks
Imagine
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Education
Learning
Too Much
College
Enjoy
Too
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
Worry
Jobs
About
Finish
Emphasis
Steve
Steve Jobs
Grades
Children
Formal
Formal Education
Placed
Much
Bill
Bill Gates
Gates
Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.
Emmitt Smith
God
Yourself
Out
Find
Ability
Placed
Your
Compare
The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which they are placed.
James Monroe
Result
Men
Circumstances
Only
Lead
Principles
Always
Passions
According
Same
Which
Placed
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
Leonardo da Vinci
Mirror
Practice
Every
Draws
Eye
Merely
Like
Without
Existence
Any
Front
Being
Which
Placed
Reason
Who
Painter
Conscious
Thing
Copies
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.
Max Weber
Politics
Knowledge
Events
Men
Power
Feeling
Important
Politician
Fiber
Holding
Positions
Everyday
Nerve
Above
He
Participating
Over
Historically
Hands
Influencing
Placed
Them
Modest
Grants
Professional
Even
Elevate
Routine
Career
But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.
Adam Weishaupt
Government
Suited
Others
Would
Had
Talents
Executed
Greater
Always
Opposed
Situations
Which
Placed
Much
Things
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