Agona Apell Quotes

#1. Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

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#2. Men who attain great heights always have few friends but many admirers, while those who ply the lower reaches of fortune often have many friends but scarcely an admirer in sight

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#3. It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

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#4. The quality of a man is to be judged not by what he drives but by what drives him

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#5. The fortune that you feel you don't deserve is heaven's compensation for the misfortunes she feels you didn't deserve

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#6. To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed

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#7. The quality of a conqueror is to be judged as much by what he spears as by what he spares

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#8. The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

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#9. Success dwells in a neighbourhood that can only be explored through failure, and it is through perfect knowledge of that neighbourhood that we gain perfect knowledge of her address

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#10. In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.

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#11. In sweetness nothing surpasses love reborn

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#12. To be laughed at draws more profitable attention than being smiled at

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#13. While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock

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#14. It is only in grammar that the mighty can be bound by rules made by the humble

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#15. Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal

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#16. Global warming will not end by Earth finding a shade under the trees but under our hands joined together

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#17. The most intelligent members of the animal kingdom are human beings; so are the most stupid

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#18. Some instincts are best left uncivilized

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#19. The world would sooner bury a live rat than it would a dead lion

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#20. The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to

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#21. Might without right makes blight

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#22. Oratory is the highest form of music

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#23. The low suffer most the blow of the law

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#24. The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar

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#25. The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come.

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#26. The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.

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#27. Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

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#28. The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease.

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#29. Our hearts gain from the weight of fear what the athlete's limbs gain from the weight of dumbbells, but only if like the athlete we do not carry that weight all day but learn to set it down before the stress of exertion begins to crush the sinews it was meant to build.

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#30. It takes hard blows to raise a drumbeat but only one soft touch to raise a heartbeat

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#31. Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

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#32. The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

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#33. The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live

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#34. Busy mouths grow on idle heads

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#35. A frequent favour is soon a debt

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#36. The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice

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#37. It used to be that a man could keep out of trouble if he behaved himself. Now he will only keep out of trouble if he behaves himself, the police behave themselves, and court behaves itself.

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#38. When love heals, scars are scarce

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#39. I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

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#40. The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

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#41. Today's troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don't want their children to have parents

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#42. It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented

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#43. Happy homes are filled with the noise of children; unhappy homes the noise of their parents

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#44. While reason steers a man, it is faith alone that moves him

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#45. A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

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#46. Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success

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#47. There are things to be obtained by law and things to be obtained by claw

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#48. The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.

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#49. There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

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#50. The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites

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#51. A book is the only true land of the free: within its borders, anything is possible

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#52. You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

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#53. If it is legitimate to kill in self-defence then it must be equally legitimate to steal in self-defence

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#54. The choice is ours to make whether the stars in the night sky shine upon us as headlights of an approaching paradise or as tail-lights of receding fortunes

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#55. If our prehistoric ancestors visited us today they would find that while we now dwell in different huts, the hearts that dwell in us are still the same; and while we now drive different things, the things that drive us have also never changed.

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#56. It's by stooping that fingers create a fist, and by standing tall that they give us open palms.

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