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We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. ↗

— Dean Rusk

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While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. ↗

— Dean Rusk

#sleeping #two-thirds #us #while #world

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ↗

— John Ruskin

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. ↗

— John Ruskin

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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. ↗

— John Ruskin

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There is no wealth but life. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

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