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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert Kennedy
Work
History
Change
Generation
Events
Will
Few
Bend
This Generation
Those
Total
Small
Written
Greatness
Itself
The History Of
Us
Each
Acts
Portion
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
Life
Love
Kindness
Best
Good
Man
His
Little
Acts
Portion
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis de Lafayette
Government
Rights
People
Sacred
Most
For The People
Insurrection
Duties
Each
Portion
Violates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
People
Own
Everyone
Must
Would
Would-Be
Take
Misfortunes
Most
Equal
Contented
Were
Heap
Depart
Common
Whence
Laid
Portion
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
Life
Love
Kindness
Best
Man
His
Little
Acts
Portion
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami Vivekananda
Faith
Evils
Ourselves
Would
Vanished
More
Miseries
Had
Sure
Practiced
Am
Been
Very
Taught
Large
Large Portion
Portion
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer
Thought
Some
Misery
Firmly
Always
End
Little
Us
Held
Each
Each One
Portion
Bring
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gift
Greatest Gift
Thyself
Greatest
Portion
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
Saint Ambrose
You
Gift
Own
Think
Back
Earth
Restoring
Give
Bound
Goods
Him
Making
His
Debt
Beggar
Which
Your
Paying
Portion
Belongs
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
St. Jerome
Me
Son
Father
Living
Entrusted
Knees
Put
Am
Fallen
Begun
Former
Prodigal
Who
Away
Wasted
Portion
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.
Kurt Cobain
Myself
Creativity
Paper
Prolific
Find
Small
Results
Never
Writings
True
Pieces
Loose
Been
Up
Very
Person
Form
Which
Scribbling
Little
Show
Ever
Portion
Flows
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
Love
Nature
Soul
Love Is
Paradise
Atmosphere
Itself
Celestial
Same
Romantic
Breathing
Portion
A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.
Charles Spurgeon
Day
Needs
Daily
Tomorrow
Unborn
Dawned
Supply
Still
Really
Portion
Need
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man
Humility
Earned
Must
Followers
Sacrifices
Always
Acclaim
His
Blood
Friends
Any
Who
Portion
Receives
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe
Truth
Experience
Will
Philosophy
Seemingly
Vast
Arises
True
Perhaps
Always
Irrelevant
Show
Shown
Larger
Portion
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey
World
Think
Some
Begun
Anyone
Places
Who
Jeopardy
Portion
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
E. Stanley Jones
Love
God
Nature
Impossible
Incredible
Our
Way
Must
Cross
He
Redeem
Reveal
His
Loved
Urge
To Love
Us
Deepest
Portion
If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Street library. That's why - that was my hangout, the reading rooms, the North and South reading rooms. I'd go there, and my God, I couldn't believe I had access to all of these books. That was my university.
Frank McCourt
God
Library
Reading
Believe
Books
Had
Access
Leave
Go
Dollars
South
North
Rooms
Large
Large Portion
Why
Street
Portion
Millions
Millions And Millions
Millions Of Dollars
University
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
Horace
Pride
Waver
More
Purpose
Pursue
Take
Wrong
Between
Doing
Vices
Mankind
Many
Portion
Right
To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people.
Jefferson Davis
Natural
People
Progress
Prosperity
Honor
Country
Whatever
Marks
Parts
His
Stability
Any
Loves
Who
Portion
Rejoice
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'
Max Weber
Reality
Mind
Important
Sense
Assumption
Analysis
Worthy
Object
Tacit
Only
Rests
Finite
Investigation
Known
Scientific
Conduct
Infinite
Human
Being
Which
Human Mind
Portion
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II
Today
Time
History
World
Christ
Soil
First
Become
Preaching
Sets
Distant
Once
Bishop
Gifted
Through
Foot
Fair
Gospel
First Time
Rome
Land
Pagan
English
Vineyard
Portion
Beloved
Britain has a Terrorism Act, which has within it a portion called Schedule 7, which is quite unique. What it is is it gives officials the ability to detain people at the border as they go in or out or even transit through the country.
Sarah Harrison
Terrorism
People
Country
Out
Border
Detain
Ability
Gives
Schedule
Through
Within
Go
Officials
Quite
Which
Transit
Act
Unique
Even
Portion
Britain
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake
Man
Soul
Age
Distinct
His
Chief
Five
Senses
Body
Portion
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin
Rich
He
His
Who
Portion
Rejoices
During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
Adam Garcia
Good
Dance
Laughter
First
Too
Backward
Out
Tried
Followed
Only
Cast
Perform
Over
Most
Audience
Falling
End
Up
Roll
Ended
Fever
Them
Act
Saturday
Portion
Saturday Night
Night
Number
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