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All Quotes Collection
"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete."
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"If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
59
"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
12
"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
27
"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."
18
"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."
71
"Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will."
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"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
43
"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."
14
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
53
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
29
"The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."
39
"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."
53
"I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome."
40
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
45
"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
14
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
13
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.""
87
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
21
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."
14
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
18
"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years."
60
"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."
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"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."
38
"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
64
"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
17
"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself."
43
"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."
14
"One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to."
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