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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson 
97% of people like this quote
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali
96% of people like this quote
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
95% of people like this quote
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns
92% of people like this quote
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
91% of people like this quote
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
89% of people like this quote
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck
78% of people like this quote
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Fay Weldon
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Robert Anton Wilson
77% of people like this quote
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