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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no m

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved. – William James

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Our faith is faith in someone elses faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. – William James

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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. – William James

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He means well is useless unless he does well. – Plautus

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Hell is paved with good intentions. – John Ray

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The best-laid schemes o mice an men
Gang aft agley. – Robert Burns

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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. – Ben Stein

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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. – Richard Milhous Nixon

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Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. – Luis Gutierrez

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