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«To be is to stand for.»
Author: Abraham J. Heschel
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«Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.»
Author: Alexander Hamilton
(Lawyer, Secretary, Soldier, Statesman, Thinker)
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fall for, for anything, stand for
«Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.»
«Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
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«Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi
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follower, followers, Gandhi, inadequate, live up to, pilgrims, seekers, stand for, workers
«There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.»
«The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.»
«The first thing you must know about me is that I always stand what I stand for. Good? The second thing you must know about yourself listening to me is that words are tricky. So when you know what me a stand for, when me explain a thing to you, you must never try to look 'pon it in a different way from what me a stand for.»
«The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?»
«There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame. Manhood and character stand for success - nothing else really does.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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