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«Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.»
«The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.»
«Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.»
«The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.»
«My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing, been nothing.»
«Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth»
Author: African Proverb | Keywords: stood, youth
«When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?»
«That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!»
«The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.»
«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditional or invented absurdities»

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