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All Quotes Collection
"I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist."
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"It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness."
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"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned."
41
"If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?"
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"The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised."
49
"The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority."
50
"The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism."
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"Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes."
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"In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct."
69
"A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks."
45
"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."
51
"Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed."
68
"Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions."
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"The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day."
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"I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers."
49
"I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'."
69
"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."
59
"A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent."
47
"I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism."
57
"I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting."
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"Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters."
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"Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life."
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"I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive."
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"I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go."
28
"The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion."
40
"The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them."
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"In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures."
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"The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus."
49
"Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever."
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