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Letter "F" » firm
«I am a firm believer that if you score one goal the other team have to score two to win.»
«One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.»
«I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.»
«It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down.»
Author: P. D. James
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Keywords:
edges,
firm,
fray,
frayed,
fraying,
frays,
hands down,
hand down,
hem,
hems,
iron,
Iron Hand,
neatly,
rag,
ragged,
unaware
«I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.»
«No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles»
Author: Patrick Henry
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Lawyer)
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About:
Government,
Liberty
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Keywords:
adherence,
blessings,
firm,
frequent,
frequented,
frequenting,
frequents,
frugality,
fundamental,
fundamental principle,
moderation,
preserved,
recurrence,
recurrences,
temperance
«One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.»
«Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(
Philosopher)
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About:
Water
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Keywords:
adamant,
attacks,
firm,
firmer,
firmest,
firming,
firms,
flexible,
forceful,
Nothing yet,
overcome,
The Firm,
withstand,
withstanding,
withstood,
yielding
«I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.»
«I pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the firm ground of result and fact»
Author: Winston Churchill
(
Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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Keywords:
firm,
firmer,
firmest,
firming,
firms,
ground,
I Pass,
pass,
relief,
result,
sea,
theory,
The Firm,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up