Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has started a prairie fire, which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

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I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. . . . In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

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Everything is hard before it is easy.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

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Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

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