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All Quotes Collection

"Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long."
God,
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"Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf."
46

"Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true."
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"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well."
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"There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange."
166

"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
50

"When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about."
Life,
45

"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
72

"His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations."
66

"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."
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"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."
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"Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food."
44

"A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own."
47

"But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!"
39

"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
45

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."
35

"Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible."
34

"Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America."
39

"Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control."
36

"The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement."
27

"The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it."
34

"No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible."
50

"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected."
36

"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
49

"I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas."
36

"In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail."
49

"Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons."
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