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Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
Les Brown

Enough, Motivation, Order

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Sun Tzu

Care, Enemy, Give

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Carroll O'Connor

Control, Haters, Fools

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
George Burns

Time, Down, Goes

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama

Children, Together, Moment

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Change, Death, Character

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar

History, Victory, Themselves

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
George Washington Carver

Him, Through, Leaving

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Body, Ourselves

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield

Give, Laziness, Perfection

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words, Ideas, Fail

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken

War, Until, Begin

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen

Business, Experience, Two

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.
Helen Rowland

Him, Ignore, Run

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway

Hope, Book, Writing

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Important, Self, Done

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore

Great, Humility, Nearest

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Traveler, Tourist, Sees

Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.
Paul Ryan

Business, Small, Hair

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
Clint Eastwood

Long, Country, Everyone

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Robert Kennedy

Struggle, Children, Down

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. Mencken

Fact, Ten, Pleasant

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Heart, America, Whatever

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.
Mitt Romney

Success, Why, Become

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats

Human, Understand, Away

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
Barack Obama

Nature, Mind, Another

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.
Steven Wright

God, Down, Speeding

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama

Fight, Job, Done

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
Milton Friedman

Great, Government, Self

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