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Source: The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

“Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche.”

“Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.”

Men War Self Home Government Views Liberty Principles Depends Safety Dear Civil War Resolve Steady Defenders Exertion Self-government

Author:Robert E. Lee

“But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.”

Eye Leader Curiosity Guides Genuine His Eyes Followers Steady Indifferent

Book:The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings

Source: The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings

“Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.”

Want Years Stills Mother Three Hollywood Experience Twenties Actresses Employment Steady Broadway Mobile Request Motion Pictures Rumours Affable

Author:Bette Davis

“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”

Ifs Battle Mere Soldier Rage Loyalty Flight Steady Disgrace Battlefields Confessing

Author:Martin Luther

“It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every downfall and breakdown. Gradually the obstacles are all overcome and your current becomes stronger. Everything comes right in the end. Steady determination is what is required.”

Ends Feet Determination Overcoming Stronger Currents Obstacles Impulse Steady Breakdown Downfall

Book:Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being.”

Mind Feelings Meditation Source Calm Contact Steady Avenues Ecstatic

Author:Sivananda

“Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.”

May Country Done Jobs Position Serious Products Development Activity Ill Harm Streams Enterprise Steady Bubbles Speculation Casinos Speculators Whirlpools

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.”

Doe Enough Facts Age Night Hours Food Thousand Eating Hundred Twenties Cooking Mere Eight Upset Contemplation Fifty Culinary Steady Day And Night Chewing Swallowing

Book:The Art of Eating

Source: The Art of Eating

“The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary.”

Hard Jobs Values Class Study Middle Becoming Entrepreneur Income Secure Middle Class Steady Good Job Salary

Book:Stay Hungry Stay Foolish

Source: Stay Hungry Stay Foolish

“Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.”

Winning Advantage Application Steady Small Wins

Author:Charles Duhigg

“Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?”

Knows Years Lasts Realizing Results Standards Hundred Gold Prosperity Improvement Voters Steady Unprecedented Standards Of Living Quota Jeopardize American Voters

Book:Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses

Source: Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses

“Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.”

Rocks Gold Steady Currency

Author:Mark Skousen

“A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not that which he thinks and says and does.”

Thinking Knows Men May Doe Self Lying Purpose Consciousness Honest Greatness Obedience Purpose Of Life Steady Examination Self-examination True Greatness

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.”

“It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.”

Littles Rocks Beats Gun Guitar Rhythm Clock Little Things Steady Hillbilly

Author:Marty Stuart

“The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.”

Prepared Rewards Diets Steady Refrain Disgusted Defamation

Author:Mitch Daniels

“I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.”

People Thinking Years Persons Careers Progress Type Seven Athlete Steady Seven Years Steady Progress

Author:Marion Jones

“Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.”

Facts Form Given Evolution Series Gaps Steady Documents Fossils Descendants

Book:What Evolution is

Source: What Evolution is

“Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.”

Causes Results Destiny Overcoming Stronger Steady Woven

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious editing, and the indexer who knows where to exercise discretion. Any simpleton can write a book, but it requires high skill to make an index.”

Knows Writing Book Literature Exercise Skills Increase Library Enormous Rely Steady Volume Editing Selection Sympathetic Discretion Simpletons

Author:Rossiter Johnson

“For girls it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight actually. Not with like everybody, I don't put out like a Craigslist ad or anything, but if I got a steady I'm going to be like 'yo, fight time's coming up.”

Ifs Trying Girl Fighting Sex Raises Steady Ads Testosterone Craigslist

Author:Ronda Rousey

“Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs of production on one price level and then, later, offer the finished product for sale at a somewhat higher price level. This situation encourages production because it gives confidence of an almost certain profit margin.”

Giving Mean Certain Levels Situation Products Higher Cost Offers Profit Productions Finished Commit Producers Steady Inflation Margins Profit Margin

Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.”

People Feels Heart Evil Interest Change Friendship Remains Affection Good And Evil Steady Friends Forever Close Friends Love And Affection True And False Best Interests At Heart Lifelong Friends

Author:Margot Frank

“If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.”

Ifs Years Would Be Cost Percent Rate Steady Unemployment Assured Inflation Bargains

Book:Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey

Source: Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey

“A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?”

Doe Use Film Certain Quality Virtue Benefits Responsible Consumers Steady Decline Domain Exploits Orphan Barren Haggard Public Domain

Author:Jack Valenti

“In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him”

Made God Religious Patient Calm Confusion Steady Encouraging Confidence In God Hymns Words Of Encouragement Lack Of Understanding Perplexity

Book:My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children

Source: My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children

“Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.”

Looks Night Certain Goal Danger Destruction Silent Missions Monsters Engines Steady Impressive Resolute Impervious

Book:The Amateur Army

Source: The Amateur Army

“To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing”

Struggle Steady Patrimony

Author:Pier Giorgio Frassati

“What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.”

Should Reason Courses House Farmers Steady Moderates

Author:Joseph Hume

“All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.”

Night Sleep Race Rivers Army Passing Passings Steady Cliffs Canyons Tumult

Book:With the Allies

Source: With the Allies

“If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.”

Ifs Wells Motivation Leadership Emotion Progress Perception Conscience Performances Treats Meaningful Steady Subordinates Facilitate Meaningful Work Great Performance Steady Progress

Author:Teresa Amabile

“The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash.”

“If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.”

Ifs Long Term Progress Guides Long Term Steady Extending

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959

“Those who stand on their toes are not steady.”

Taoism Steady Toes

Author:Laozi

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