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All Quotes Collection
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
72
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
100
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
68
"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
24
"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."
16
"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
16
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
12
"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
14
"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"
59
"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
11
"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."
10
"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."
16
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
13
"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just."
65
"A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't."
51
"Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk."
37
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."
17
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
79
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
30
"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."
12
"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."
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