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All Quotes Collection
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice."
46
"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
47
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
50
"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."
66
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
40
"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true."
18
"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
15
"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."
23
"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."
79
"We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
18
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
21
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
20
"True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can."
14
"What Washington needs is adult supervision."
49
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
79
"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
16
"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."
12
"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
19
"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
Fear,
81
"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
46
"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."
16
"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."
53
"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
19
"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent."
67
"Creditors have better memories than debtors."
13
"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door."
47
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
13
"DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience."
30
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
75
"Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear."
50
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
44
"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."
47
"'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
59
"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it."
97
"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."
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