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274 quotesIf they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
Peace
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Imagination rules the world.
Imagination
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
Imagination
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Life and Living
Corrie Ten Boom
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Failure
Christian Nevell Bovee
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Fear
Christian Nevell Bovee
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Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
Imagination
Les Brown
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The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
Explanations
Professor William Buechner
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The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
United Nations
Ralph Bunche
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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Government
Basil Bunting
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
Nations
Edmund Burke
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Perseverance
Edmund Burke
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Education is the cheap defence of nations.
Uncategorised
Edmund Burke
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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
Goals
Curtis Carlson
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Imagination
Thomas Carlyle
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We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.
Education
Lauro Cavazos
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The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
Empire
Joseph Chamberlain
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People can die of mere imagination.
Imagination
Geoffrey Chaucer
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Anecdotes
Lord Chesterfield
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Puritans
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
Peace
Grover Cleveland
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Assassination is the perquisite of princes.
Assassination
European Court Cliche
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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost --the lost valleys of the imagination.
Travel and Tourism
Alexander Cockburn
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Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.
Risk
Confucius
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Family
Confucius
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun