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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Work, Friendly, Hard

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling

Everything, Others, Son

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert Hubbard

Long, Example, Private

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
Nikola Tesla

Work, Truth, Future

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill

Good, Freedom, Long

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake

Enough, Weak, Desires

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell

Someone, Special, Moment

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke

Children, Purpose, Eat

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Great, Young

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

Few, Less, Excitement

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens

May, Fact, Often

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Die, Why, Reason

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen

Education, Men, Story

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy

Men, Woman, Feelings

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William Hazlitt

Thinking, Others, Order

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
Rita Rudner

Women, God, Men

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

God, Process, Create

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
Donald Rumsfeld

Mistakes, Help, Try

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.
Aesop

Men, Allow, Purposes

Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.
Jonathan Sacks

Life, Cannot, Dead

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
Freddie Mercury

Care, Others, Frankly

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese

Time, Far, Artist

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. Salinger

Hard, Roommates, Suitcases

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
Jean Cocteau

Known, Mystery, Above

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Reputation, Build, Helping

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
James Thurber

Between, While, Difference

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
Emma Thompson

Live, Understand, Poor

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Joseph Conrad

Women, Honor, Fine

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.
Demi Lovato

Amazing, Feeling, Said

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy

Made, Ideas, Poet

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