Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTISEvery great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer.
More George William Curtis Quotes
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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
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True invective requires great imagination.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Happiness is speechless.
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Good taste consists first upon fitness.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The world is not made for the prosperous alone, nor for the strong.
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.
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While we read history we make history.
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