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«Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.»
«Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.»
«I want to start by saying something nice about President Bush. Of all the presidents we've had with the last name of Bush, his economic plan ranks in the top two.»
«I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.»
«Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.»
«If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks»
Author: Frederick The Great | About: Soldiers | Keywords: ranks
«In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.»
«Now order the ranks, and fling wide the banners, for our souls are God's and our bodies the king's, and our swords for Saint George and for England!»
«Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.»
«It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.»

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