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Quotes on Spares

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If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, that's what caused me to be like this, it's not my fault. Permit me to correct you: it probably is your fault. And kindly spare me the details.
Julian BarnesRead
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel CapekRead
Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.
Pope FrancisRead
And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
John MiltonRead
Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.
Edna St. Vincent MillayRead
Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity
Napoleon HillRead
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.
Albert SchweitzerRead
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel ProustRead
My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.
Sugata MitraRead
Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.
Bill WalshRead
I can't spare this man, he fights!
Abraham LincolnRead
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Martha BeckRead
Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.
Richard BaxterRead
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.
Bruce SchneierRead
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Benjamin FranklinRead
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
C. S. LewisRead
Spare the rod and spoil the child - that is true. But, beside the rod, keep an apple to give him when he has done well.
Martin LutherRead
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
Brooks AtkinsonRead
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
Gordon B. HinckleyRead

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