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«By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.»
«I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.»
«In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.»
«A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince»
«I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.»
«Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are»
«Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.»
«In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.»
«Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Courage | Keywords: preserving, reckoned
«I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.»