"I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly."

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Source : "The Historians' History of the World". Book by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423, 1903.

Catherine the Great

#Rewards Quotes #Blame Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“Love ranges from just fascination to something almost spiritual. In the case with my wife Barbara it just keeps growing all the time.”
“There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 574, 1895.
“Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.”
“Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience at Bondurant raises the curious idea that we buy carsâ€”for most people one of the most costly things they will ever ownâ€”with an underdeveloped sense of how to use them. This is true for many things, arguably, but not knowing what the F9 key does in Microsoft Word is less life-threatening than not knowing how to properly operate antilock brakes.”
“Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born,”
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
“Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.”

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