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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

Quote by Ron Paul about example, force, police, good, good luck

I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.

Quote by Michael Bolton about happiness, time

It was in the interests of setting the theory of reincarnation at rest and disproving it roundly, that I agreed to work exploring the matter.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about work

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

Quote by William Falconer about heads

The display settings on your computer will play havoc only when you have to finish a presentation by afternoon.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about end

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.

Quote by Francis Parkman about opinion, independence

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Quote by John Dos Passos about mind, chaos, moral, man

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about life, order, things

The day begins to droop, Its course is done: But nothing tells the place Of the setting sun.

Quote by Robert Bridges about poetry, sun, nothing, day