A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
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The United States cannot continue to lose vast amounts of business, vast amounts of companies, and millions and millions of people losing their jobs.
A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.
Everybody knows I got a temper. It's not a temper temper-not an off-the-field temper. It's a competitive temper, wanting to do good. But as far as being a guy who disrupts a lot of things, who doesn't want to listen? Nah, man. That's false. That's false because I'm excelling.
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Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.
In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.
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What can be done? Well, the governments of the world can undertake what amounts to a vast clean-up campaign and a vast campaign of organic renewal. The problem is the cost of an effective operation, which is enormous, and thus must be paid by someone via some form of taxes.
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