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Letter "P" » pointing
«You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.»
«When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.»
«The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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Keywords:
competing,
demonstrably,
desirable,
Economic reform,
effectual,
idealism,
idealist,
impracticable,
objectionable,
offered,
pointing,
pointing out,
political program,
program,
successfully
«The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -- the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.»
«The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I;Not a church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high.But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river;And the lamp of my soul is alight with love for life, and the world, and the Giver.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Keywords:
A-one,
alight,
alighted,
alights,
a million,
bears,
bosom,
Church of,
creeds,
float,
giver,
givers,
High Church,
lamp,
million,
of my own,
pointing,
river,
spire,
spires,
The Giver,
thousand million,
with love
«White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.»
Author: Jimi Hendrix
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Composer,
Guitarist,
Singer)
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Keywords:
collar,
collars,
drop down,
finger,
flag,
flag down,
flag waving,
freak,
freaking,
freaks,
freak out,
plastic,
pointing,
wave,
white-collar