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All Quotes Collection
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
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"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
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"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
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"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
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"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
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"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
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"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."
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"We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior."
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"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense."
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"Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself."
Life,
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
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"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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"Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact."
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"The remedy for wrongs is to forget them."
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"Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues."
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"Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient."
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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"He who lives in solitude may make his own laws."
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"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
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"I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that."
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"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."
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"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."
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"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."
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"Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them."
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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
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"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
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"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
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"Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers."
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"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
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