“ I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
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“ Let me urge that we keep clear of two besetting sins — hardness of heart and softness of head. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards. ”
- Barbara Paley- Copy
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“ The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
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“ Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought… ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ”
- Andre Breton- Copy
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