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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt) [face/dust/blood/enthusiasm]
• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. (Pablo Picasso) [art/dust/life]
• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. (Jack London) [dust/atom/waste/time]
• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Red Auerbach) [music/dust/life]
• It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! (Francis Bacon) [dust]
• For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. (William Blake) [smile/dust]
• The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Elizabeth Bowen) [genius/memory/dust]
• The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off. (Thomas Carlyle) [dust]
• It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them. (George Foreman) [think/dust]
• Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. (Benjamin Franklin) [dust/benefits]
• Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble. (Benjamin Franklin) [dust/benefits]
• I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit. (John F. Kennedy) [dust/cities/willpower/politics]
• I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. (Jack London) [dust/atom]
• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. (John Milton) [virtue/dust/heat]
• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Pablo Picasso) [art/dust/life]
• It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt) [face/dust/blood/high]
• The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric--brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. (Oscar Wilde) [mind/thing/dust/value]
• I might as well have been in the army. It was really hard work. I think that day I swallowed 50% dust and 50% food, it was that tough. (Emma Watson) [think/day/dust/food]
• Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. (George Gordon Byron) [men/think/dust]
• Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. (Ambrose Bierce) [dust]

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