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All Quotes Collection
"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."
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"If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
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"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
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"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
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"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."
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"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
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"Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still."
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"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others."
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"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
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"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
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"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
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"Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion."
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"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
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"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
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"There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day."
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"Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."
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"The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become."
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"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
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"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
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"I would solve a lot of literary problems just thinking about a character in the subway, where you can't do anything anyway."
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."
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"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."
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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
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"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure."
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"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
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"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."
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