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All Quotes Collection
"It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends."
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"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
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"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
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"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
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"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
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"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."
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"A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images."
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"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest."
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"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
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"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."
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"Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy."
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"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
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"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room."
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"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
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"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting."
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"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."
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"Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."
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"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."
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"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
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"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."
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"No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon."
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"If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words."
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"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
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"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
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"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."
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"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places."
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"If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?"
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"None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important."
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
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"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
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"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."
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"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
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