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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious
throughout our society -
that women are now providing
all types of skills in every profession.
The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots,
you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
We Learn...
10% of what we read,
20% of what we hear,
30% of what we see,
50% of what we see and hear,
70% of what we discuss,
80% of what we experience,
95% of what we teach others.
- William Glasser
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie
If your only tool is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
We only see what we want to see,
and hear what we want to hear
- don Miguel Ruiz
We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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