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All Quotes Collection
"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."
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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
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"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals."
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"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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"I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians."
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"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
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"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
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"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem."
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"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind."
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"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
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"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."
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"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."
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"Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said."
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
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"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
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"People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know."
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"Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy."
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"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
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"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
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"What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years."
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"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition."
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"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
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"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing."
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"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."
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"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
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"Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything."
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"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
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"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
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"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so."
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
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"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed."
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