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It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
Gilbert Parker

Friendship, Great, Men

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.
Franz Schubert

Angry, Poor, Above

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Davy Crockett

Respect, Sympathy, Living

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
Alfred A. Montapert

Life, Mind, Goal

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Lord Chesterfield

Good, Live, Long

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
Vaclav Havel

Impossible, Around, Point

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence

Humor, God, True

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mother Jones

Alone, Leader, Show

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.
Mick Jagger

Forget, Past, Why

Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton

Wisdom, Doubt, Through

You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.
Suze Orman

Dreams, Future, Today

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
Marguerite Young

Person, Understand, Leader

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Albert Pike

God, Truth, True

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Washington Irving

Mind, End, Struggle

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Charles Lamb

Street, Melancholy, Rare

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Paul Cezanne

Age, Realize, Sensible

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson

Beautiful, Woman, Her

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells

Sea, Confess, Crew

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Emile M. Cioran

Life, Decision, Since

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Grow, Loves, Outgrow

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Mao Zedong

Sea, Fish, Move

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan

Life, Love, Respect

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound

Art, Someone, Together

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren G. Bennis

Cannot, Themselves, Ideas

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
Desmond Tutu

Fighting, Show, Abhor

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.
Elie Wiesel

Religion, Women, Men

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Bo Bennett

Good, Famous, Someone

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
William Penn

Conquer, Weakness, Thou

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn

Love, Deserve, Virtue

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