#peak

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. ↗

— John Tillotson

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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down. ↗

— Randy Travis

#down #go #going #last #long

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#drawn #effectively #experiences #hatred #however

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ↗

— Alan Turing

#altered #believe #century #contradicted #educated

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#country #either #freedom #freedom of speech #god

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it. ↗

— Jack Vance

#blind #computer #computers #find #hard

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#credited #drudgery #result #seldom #source

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that? ↗

— Jim Wallis

#appointed #been #believes #careful #god

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#country #creature #crime #fury #hour

When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#american people #gingrich #got #look #newt