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«Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
Citizenship,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
cherishes, citizen, Country Life, defence, gains, His country, protection
«A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.»
Author: I Ching
| Keywords:
adaptations, calmly, come by, creative person, gains, small person, stroke, stroked, The Strokes
«Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
binds, gains, repeated, spider, spider web, steady, steel, web
«And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, / And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city, / And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.»
«Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]»
«Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, businessman or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts, and varying interests.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Art,
Business,
Civilization,
Soldiers
| Keywords:
adjustment, businessman, diverse, gains, mystic, outlet, outlets, reckoned, satisfactory, temperamental, types, varying