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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

Peace, Cannot, Force

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Hope, Important, Trying

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

Faith, Time, Everything

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Wish, Alive

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Reason, Whatever

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great, Men, Night

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs

Great, Different, Path

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.
Marilyn Monroe

Life, Woman, Proud

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome

Long, Friend, Found

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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine

Character, Easier, Recovered

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
David Lee Roth

Used, Falling, Ice

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
Bill Gates

Technology, Cars, Industry

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus

History, Everything, Sun

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw

Everybody, Secrets, Guesses

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
Francis Quarles

Patience, Anger, Long

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West

Mother, Him, Thrown

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
Charlie Sheen

Family, Dad, School

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
Groucho Marx

Time, Sex, Remember

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal

Nothing, Genius, System

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Fight, Important

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus Aurelius

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Saying, Soul, Alive

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
Steven Wright

Mind, Trying, Wandering

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Rene Descartes

Made, Keep, Mistake

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody.
Clint Eastwood

Him, Down, Made

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
Jim Carrey

Crazy, Mother, Saying

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Fight, Important

We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle Obama

Success, Respect, School

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

Humor, Sense, Joke

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
Rodney Dangerfield

Played, Cat, Covering

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