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All Quotes Collection
"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
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"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
15
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
46
"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."
86
"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."
61
"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
12
"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."
81
"As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me."
63
"The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it."
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
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"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
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"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."
42
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."
14
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
57
"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
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"We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it."
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"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
12
"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."
55
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
36
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
32
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."
12
"I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"
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"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
14
"Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm."
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"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."
14
"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
13
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
11
"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong."
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
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