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By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. ↗

— John Acton

#dead #nations #off #past #reign

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. ↗

— Roy Acuff

#ahead #gets #go #lord #place

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

#doing #ever #him #required #simply

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. ↗

— Roy Acuff

#democrats #done #ever #governor #greatest

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control. ↗

— Red Adair

#control #everybody #face #finished #hurt

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#like #little #looking #necessary #rest

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#any #begin #believe #bustle #calm

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#different #diplomacy #enterprise #failure #hence

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#especially #fear #government #government workers #included

I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no different from those of the average man. Perhaps I have pondered this relationship a bit more carefully and am conscious of a freedom to which “basically” everybody is entitled – a freedom that more or less dicates his actions. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#anarchy #ernst-jünger #freedom #freedom