"The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican."
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"It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up."
"Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit."
"Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . ."
"The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit."
"The only great spirit of our time."
"That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it."
"Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth."
"Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development."
"Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit."
"Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it."
"All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed."
"Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates."
"Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity."
"The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery."
"We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit."
"The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent."
"Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change."
"With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for."
"The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen."