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All Quotes Collection

"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."
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"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."
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"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
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"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
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"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."
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"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
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"To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel."
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"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
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"Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment."
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"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."
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"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power."
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
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"No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside."
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"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
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"Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man."
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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
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"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."
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"The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever."
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"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."
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