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All Quotes Collection

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."
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"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
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"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
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"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."
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"Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day."
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"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
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"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
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"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
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"Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural."
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"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
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"For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments are equally imperfect."
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"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
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"I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism."
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"Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass."
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
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"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."
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"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."
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"The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous."
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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
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"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
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"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people."
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