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All Quotes Collection
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
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"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."
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"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
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"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
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"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."
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"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
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"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
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"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."
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"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
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"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
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"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
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"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks."
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"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
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"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
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"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."
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"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota."
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"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run."
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"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
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"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."
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"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."
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"We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches."
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"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
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"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."
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