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«It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.»
«A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.»
Author: David Brinkley
(Journalist)
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Men,
Success
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«Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.»
«MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.»
«He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.»
«Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.»
«He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.»
«I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact»
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