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All Quotes Collection

"I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know."
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"Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having."
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"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
89

"There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen."
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"I only want people around me who can do the impossible."
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"I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men."
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"Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here."
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"Every woman has the right to be beautiful."
40

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
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"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."
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"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."
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"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life."
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"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country."
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"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
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"It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past."
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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
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"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
127

"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
48

"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."
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"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one."
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"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
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"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."
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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."
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