Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent.
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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You must get everything into proportion.
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Every exit is an entry somewhere.
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
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Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is worth.
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
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No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
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The artist needs no religion beyond his work.
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Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.
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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
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The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
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I think computer viruses should count as life.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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The truth, as the light, makes blind.
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I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
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I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
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The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity.
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Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't ea Ursula K.
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The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Ursula K.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and company Ursula K.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. An Ursula K.
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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it.
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Where I am nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall.
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Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.
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Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
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