“ I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
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“ There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time, I owe him my best. ”
- Joe DiMaggio- Copy
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“ Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ”
- Joaquin Setanti- Copy
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“ Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
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“ Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ When it comes to generosity, the spirit of service to our fellow human beings regardless of nationality or race or creed, I risk incurring the sin of pride by saying no nation exceeds our own. ”
- Richard F. Schubert- Copy
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“ To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ A person should never try to purchase pleasure at the cost of pain, or even at the risk of incurring it. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ We could not retard that great forward movement of humanity if we would. But each of us may decide for himself whether to share in the glory of promoting it or incur the shame of having looked coldly and indifferently on. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ The child with his sweet pranks, full of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil. ”
- Sir Walter Raleigh- Copy
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“ Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it… ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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