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Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.
We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.
On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and best wishes to the men and women of India who will henceforth be a citizen of a republic. I feel deeply thankful for the affection showered on me by all sections of the people, which alone enabled me to hear the burden of an office to the duties and conventions of which I had been an utter stranger.
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.
People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
One piece of advice that always stuck in my mind is that people should be respected and trusted as people, not because of their position or title.
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?
Of course in the first matches you are more careful, perhaps more careful than you should be
All the people that criticised me should eat their words.
Pele should go back to the museum.
Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.
Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage
Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.
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