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“There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

Thinking Men May Hands Decision Taken Magic Hundred Consequence Graves Reaching One Man Magic Powers

Author:Fatima Jinnah

“Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.”

Men May Science Ocean Accounts Fishes Carrie One Man Herring

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane”

Men Giving May Wisdom Tree Moved Islamic One Man Rooted Cranes

Author:Saadi

“One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.”

Men May Body One Man Cunning

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“No one has the right to use America's rivers and America's Waterways, that belong to all the people. as a sewer. The banks of a river may belong to one man or one industry or one State, but the waters which flow between the banks should belong to all the people.”

People Men Should May States Use America Water Industry Flow Rivers Environmental One Man Sewers Rivers And Water Water Pollution

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."”

Knows Men World Should Believe May Said Lying Impossible Honest Deceit One Man Dishonesty Honest Man

Author:William Shenstone

“The outer is easier, and the outer is objective. For example, one man, Thomas Alva Edison, discovers electricity and the whole of humanity uses it; there is no need for everyone to discover it again and again. Inner growth is a totally different phenomenon. A Gautama Buddha may become enlightened, but that does not mean that everybody else becomes enlightened. Each individual has to find the truth for him or herself.”

“From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.”

Men May States Whole Influence Example Ambition Thrown One Man Disorder Courtesy Rebellious Courteous Perverseness

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)