Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
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Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.
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If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
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If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
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He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
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Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
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It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself.
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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement.
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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention.
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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
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Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
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Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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I'm a born-again atheist.
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People for privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
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Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
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Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.
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Accidents, try to change them-it impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Give me a museum, and I'll fill it.
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If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
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Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.
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I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
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It is love, not reason that is stronger than death.
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
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I have always been an admirer.
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
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Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
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