Top Takes Quotes
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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James Anthony Froude All Takes Quotes
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
Franklin P. Adams 
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All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.
Ramman Kenoun
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
Ralph W. Sockman
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If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
Joshua Lederberg
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West
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A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
Ellsworth Huntington
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He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
Edwin W. Edwards
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