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The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. – James Garfield

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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. – James Garfield

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Defeat
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James Garfield
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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. – James Garfield

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USA Patriotic
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It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource. – Robert Collier

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Commitment

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Commitment

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never — in anything great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Commitment

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. – Thomas Carlyle

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Commitment

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A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think its really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work. – Joan Cusack

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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another? – William Jennings Bryan

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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other. – Anton Chekhov

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