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All Quotes Collection
"To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth."
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
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"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
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"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
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"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
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"The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch."
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"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
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"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."
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"I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it."
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"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both."
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"There is no just and serene criticism as yet."
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
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"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."
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"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
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"I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes."
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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
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"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all."
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"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
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"The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get."
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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else."
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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."
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"Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."
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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."
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"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
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"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
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"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."
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"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."
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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."
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"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
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"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory."
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