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All Quotes Collection

"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
79

"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."
71

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends."
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"If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
74

"I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class."
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"Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place."
67

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
96

"Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75."
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
13

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
55

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
45

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
53

"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."
49

"When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
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"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
52

"There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong."
74

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
64

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."
25

"What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them."
54

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
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"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
17

"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
65

"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."
101

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
68

"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."
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"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
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"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
23

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."
62

"Woman's at best a contradiction still."
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"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
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"For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best."
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