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All Quotes Collection
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
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"A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron."
29
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
6
"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"
10
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
2
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
3
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
23
"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."
22
"That fatal drollery called a representative government."
6
"The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery."
5
"Each life makes its own immitation of immortality."
4
"Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important."
26
"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."
3
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
89
"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
3
"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."
5
"Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time."
14
"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
7
"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."
6
"No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly."
16
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
12
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
4
"Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life."
15
"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love."
5
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."
4
"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."
6
"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
4
"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."
14
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
3
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
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