Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.
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Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas . . . If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you . . . On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.
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In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. Now they're lunch, and we're number one on the planet.
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An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
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When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.
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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
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Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.
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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
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I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.
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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.
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An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
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An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness
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An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
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A quarter-ounce of chocolate = four pounds of fat.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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