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Quote by Robert Hall
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. – Robert Hall

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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. – Robert Hall

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History
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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. – Robert Hall

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Friendship
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Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy. – Robert Hall

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Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support. – Andrew Jackson

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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. – Andrew Young

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People who avoid the brick walls – all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve. – Jennifer Aniston

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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. – Bruce Lee

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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. – Di Cavour

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Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. – Keith Miller

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Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general – as we all do in our dreams – I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. – Rose Tremain

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I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and Id say, Im still dead, Mom! I was Method, even then. – Creed Bratton

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