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All Quotes Collection

"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
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"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."
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"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."
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"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe."
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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."
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"There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce."
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"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
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"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."
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"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
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"Everybody likes a compliment."
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"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
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"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."
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"I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."
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"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
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"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."
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"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
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"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."
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"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."
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"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
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"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."
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"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."
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"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."
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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
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"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people."
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"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy."
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