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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis

Wrong, Means, Progress

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell

Leadership, Failure, Care

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

Past, High, Act

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein

Destiny, Lives, Point

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln

Before, Both, Conflict

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

Free, Soldier, State

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West

Rain, Rainy, Another

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Groucho Marx

Forget, Face, Glad

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

Change, May, Liberty

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Men, Long

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony

Person, Sometimes, Guilty

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
Kurt Cobain

Good, Divorce, Until

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields

Small, Whiskey, Carry

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico

End, Fight, Justice

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe

Few, Test, Popularity

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus

Good, Society, Today

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
Voltaire

Wait, News, Sacrament

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe

Point, Obscure, Discussed

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen

Nothing, Illusion, Exists

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J. K. Rowling

Live, Impossible, Might

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
Mike Tyson

Sleep, Wife, Afraid

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
Angelina Jolie

Love, Bad, Find

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Kurt Vonnegut

Good, Working, Keep

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Leonardo da Vinci

Tongue, Except, Push

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill

Evil, Person, May

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
Paulo Coelho

Time, Done, Wanted

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams

Nation, Necessity, Tyrant

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James

Faith, Greatest, Someone

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
W. C. Fields

Best, Another, Bartender

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