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Surest Quotes (page 2)

My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation. Mark Twain
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly. Neal Stephenson
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. Barack Obama
Francis Bacon quote: "The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the..."
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them. Francis Bacon
Ethan and I drove around Silicon Valley today looking at various company parking lots to see whose workers are working on a Sunday. He says that's the surest way to tell which company to invest in. "If the techies aren't grinding, the stock ain't climbing. Doug Coupland
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine,..."
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote... T. S. Eliot
Wilfred Grenfell quote: "Courage is always the surest wisdom."
Courage is always the surest wisdom. Wilfred Grenfell
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. Ashley Montagu
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect. Thomas S. Monson
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Germaine Greer
Fred G. Gosman quote: "Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it..."
Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue. Fred G. Gosman
Claire Forlani quote: "The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind."
The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind. Claire Forlani
Annie Dillard quote: "The surest sign of age is loneliness."
The surest sign of age is loneliness. Annie Dillard
Demosthenes quote: "The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to..."
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. Demosthenes

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