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All Quotes Collection

"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them."
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"The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward."
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"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities."
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"There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."
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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."
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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."
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"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."
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"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
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"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it."
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
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"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
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"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists."
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"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."
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"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
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"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
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"Public opinion in this country is everything."
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"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
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"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil."
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"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
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"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
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"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected."
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"Man is not free unless government is limited."
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young."
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"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."
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