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«It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.»
«Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference»
«Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.»
«I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.»
«I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations»
Author: Otto von Bismarck
(Chancellor, Founder, Prime Minister)
| About:
Victory,
War
| Keywords:
endeavor, spare, statesmanship, victorious
«I need not go / Through sleet and snow / To where I know / She waits for me: / She will tarry there / Till I find it fair, / And have time to spare / From company.»
«Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.»
«Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.»
«I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time. the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
concerns, debt, difficulties, intend, in so far, Long Walk, shorter, spare, spare time, thirty, walked
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