“ It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. ”
- Jessamyn West- Copy
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“ One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. ”
- William Boetcker- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The moose are gone, and their bones lie under the sand in the soft coal which was the forest by the estuary, thousands of years ago. ”
- Henry Williamson- Copy
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“ A pat on the back, through only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results. ”
- Bennett Cerf- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it. ”
- L. M. Montgomery- Copy
- 2.6K
“ A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
- 3.6K
“ It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. ”
- Clementine Paddleford- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. ”
- Robert Kiyosaki- Copy
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“ The federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. ”
- Tommy Douglas- Copy
- 3.6K
“ This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest. ”
- Byron Dorgan- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Never grow a wishbone, where your backbone ought to be. ”
- Clementine Paddleford- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wish bone. ”
- William Boetcker- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do. ”
- Walt Disney- Copy
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“ The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ”
- Elaine Agather- Copy
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