"We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned."

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Source : Ernest Hamlin Abbott, Lyman Abbott, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Hamilton Wright Mabie (1904). “The Outlook”

Lyman Abbott

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“I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.”
“Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land.”
“That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don't know much about it and you don't want to know.”
“I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.”

Source : "The naked and the living" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.
“I think it is just the way he has changed the game overall and his own game because there are so many situations he has faced. He is now competing mostly against himself, like most great cricketers do. I think he has mastered all of them. The only challenge he has is to beat himself every time he walks out there because he has done almost everything.”
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
“Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.”

Source : "When is the last time a whale did anything for you?". www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net.
“Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.”

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