Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
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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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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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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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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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
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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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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
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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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Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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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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People for privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
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I'm a born-again atheist.
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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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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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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.
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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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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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Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.
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If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
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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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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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It is love, not reason that is stronger than death.
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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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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
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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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Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
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We are shaped by our thoughts. We become what we think.
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He who loves 50 people has 50 woes he who loves no one has no woes.
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
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Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
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Believe nothing merely because you have been told it.
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Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
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