Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
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The White House is the finest prison in the world.
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I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them.
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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
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Study men, not historians.
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Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
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If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
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No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
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It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
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Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
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Success is the child of audacity.
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
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I must follow the people.
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He is a self-made man, very much in love with his creator.
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Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education.
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We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
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Mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
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A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
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Orthodoxy is Unconsciousness.
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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
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...Two and two are four. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three.
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Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.
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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
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Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
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We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
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He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.
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The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
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The bird has an honor that man does not have.
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Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
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The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
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To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
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To be closer to God, be closer to people.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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