The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
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A mans mind stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimensions.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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With all humility, I think, 'Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
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The law embodies the story of a nations development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.
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