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A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
Robert Hall

Friend, Opinion, Value

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee

Fear, Times, Kick

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan

Life, Government, Earth

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

Time, Everything, Happen

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead

Family, Sister, Within

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein

Accept, Beyond, Limits

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Good, After, Against

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Albert Einstein

Time, Everything, Happening

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller

Love, Lose, Enjoyed

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill

Time, Important, Try

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson

Positive, Thoughts, Negative

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Best, Hope

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Human, Living, Between

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Muhammad Ali

Deep, Happen, Belief

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Strength, Nothing, Find

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

Death, Die, Before

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Respect, Confidence, Esteem

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan

Successful, Selfish, Else

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Life, Humor, Laughter

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth, Lost, Laugh

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci

Long, Eyes, Earth

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

Time, Winning, Win

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

Problem, Child, Artist

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness, Health, True

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill

Politics, War, Times

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

Life, Future, Heart

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
Paulo Coelho

Time, Everything, Happen

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill

Politics, War, Times

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

Fight, Country, Moment

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