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Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents.
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
The mountains, I become a part of it…The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go. He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right.
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
…it was always said of him [Scrooge] that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is a confession of character.
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
