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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

– Sidney MadwedRate it:

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

– Isadora DuncanRate it:

The finest kind of friendship is between people who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.

– Sylvia BremerRate it:

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

– George EliotRate it:

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.

– Michel Eyquem de MontaigneRate it:

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

– Charles BaudelaireRate it:

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.

– Anatole FranceRate it:

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

– Henry David ThoreauRate it:

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.

– Aldous HuxleyRate it:

The fingers on the windows leave traces on them. The fingers on the body leave invisible traces. (Les doigts sur les vitres - Laissent des traces sur elles; - Les doigts sur le corps - En laissent d'invisibles.)

– Charles de LEUSSERate it:

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

– ProverbRate it:

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

– Ed KochRate it:

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

– ConfuciusRate it:

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

– Roger McGuinnRate it:

The first aim of communism was to destroy the idea of elitism, but it appears to oppress its own citizens.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools.

– Bill ClintonRate it:

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

– Hugo BlackRate it:

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

– Justice Anthony KennedyRate it:

The First Amendment issue here is, as the parties frame it, fairly narrow: is there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative.

– Kermit Victor LipezRate it:

The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else's speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don't run to court, or to the principal, when they encounter a message they don't like. They answer it with one of their own.

– Jeff JacobyRate it:

The first and foremost thing to know whether they are protecting the people from the game or promoting it under the guise of same.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make no law which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that no law does not mean what it says, that no law is qualified to mean some laws. I cannot take this step.

– Justice William O. DouglasRate it:

The first and great commandment is Don't let them scare you.

– Elmer DavisRate it:

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