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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ↗

— George Washington

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The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. ↗

— Kerry Washington

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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

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I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. ↗

— James Whistler

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. ↗

— Robert Graves

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There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great. ↗

— Marvin Hagler

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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

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