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All Quotes Collection

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."
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"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
67

"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."
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"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
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"Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself."
49

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
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"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."
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"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."
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"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
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"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."
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"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
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"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."
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"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."
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"Knavery and flattery are blood relations."
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"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."
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"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
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"We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future."
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
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"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
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"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
30

"God must love the common man, he made so many of them."
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"Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
37

"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."
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