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All Quotes Collection

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
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"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
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"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
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"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
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"People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening."
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"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."
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"How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?"
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"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat."
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"Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable."
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"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."
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"Art is the objectification of feeling."
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"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."
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"If you want to change the world, start with yourself."
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"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."
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"Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it."
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"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality."
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"Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge."
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"No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."
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"The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."
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"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."
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"That government is best which governs least."
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"Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee."
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"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."
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"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."
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"Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs."
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