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All Quotes Collection
"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
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"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
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"It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of."
65
"God enters by a private door into every individual."
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"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
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"His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine."
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"The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy."
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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
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"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."
12
"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
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"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
83
"It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride."
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"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."
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"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
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"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
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"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."
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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
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"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."
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"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
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"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
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"I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, the power to offer an expensive remote control helicopter to children and create a huge smile in them, the power to wait for the ones you love to love you back just because you don't need to waste your time like they do."
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