#rise

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. ↗

— Mary Austin

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As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#billion #continues #cost #dependence #each

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

#act #any #be prepared #emergency #himself

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#begin #done #enterprise #epochs #essential

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. ↗

— Zane Grey

#higher #may #men #rise #selves

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Every level that I have ever competed on, I have risen to the top. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#ever #every #i #level #risen

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#astonish #atlantic #bizarre #else #go

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

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