The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.
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If you don't think animal protection is a battle, consider the weapons we're up against: harpoon; leg-hold trap; cockfighting spur; puntilla (knife used in the slaughter of livestock in certain countries); ferao (used in Brazil to poke out the eyes of cattle before leading them to slaughter); hakapik (used to club baby seals)... among others!'
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The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
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Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.
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Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. B...
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There will be a lot of rebuilding that is going to need to occur. These things do spur GDP growth.
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Hebrews 10:24:
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds
(NIV)
And let us consider and give attentive, continuous care to watching over one another, studying how we may stir up (stimulate and incite) to love and helpful deeds and noble activities
(AMP)
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
(KJV)
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Don't spur a willing horse.
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One lives for today, one lives on the spur of the moment—one lives most irresponsibly: and it is precisely this that one calls 'freedom.'
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