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All Quotes Collection
"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
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"Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well."
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"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
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"It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other."
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"You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow."
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"We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!"
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"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"
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"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
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"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question."
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"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
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"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
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"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
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"I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early."
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"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."
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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
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"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
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"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."
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"I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington."
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"As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom."
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"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."
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"I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors."
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"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."
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"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
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"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
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"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
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