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All Quotes Collection

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
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"There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast."
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"There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid."
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
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"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving."
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"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
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"The universe is wider than our views of it."
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"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."
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"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
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"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
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"Every people have gods to suit their circumstances."
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"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold."
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"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."
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"While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man."
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"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."
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"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
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"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."
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"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."
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"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
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"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."
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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
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"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."
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"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries."
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"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside."
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"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."
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"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."
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"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."
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"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."
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"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."
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"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."
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"I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary."
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