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The spirit of public service will rise, and the bureaucracy will multiply itself much faster, in time of grave national concern.
-- Taylor Branch...
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Abigail Adams, Paris, Feb. 22, 17 87...
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
-- Old Testament -- Isaiah x...
The spirits of just men made perfect. -- New Testament -- Hebrews xii, 23
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. -- Vince Lombardi...
The Spiritual Life: Ned Itatio
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,--although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
-- Saint Augustine (354-430) -- Works, Vol. iii, In Johannis Evangelum, c. tr. 5, Sect. 1...
The spirit walks of every day deceased.
-- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night ii, Line 180...
Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba...
The spit valve's fallen off his trumpet again.

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