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«Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.»
Author: Tom Landry
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«Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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«The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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Education
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acquisition, acquisitions, facts, intellectual, in the main, learning, main
«Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Example
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«The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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World
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«The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.»
«Self-command is the main discipline.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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command, discipline, Disciplining, in the main, main, self-command
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