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All Quotes Collection
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
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"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."
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"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."
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"Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."
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"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
6
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
10
"I want to put a ding in the universe."
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"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."
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"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
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"I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!"
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"If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."
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"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
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"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
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"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood."
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"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
2
"Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes."
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"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
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"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand."
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"Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."
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"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."
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"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge."
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"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
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"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
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"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
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"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
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