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All Quotes Collection
"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
18
"My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."
46
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
87
"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information."
15
"When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?"
18
"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
64
"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night."
85
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
14
"We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page."
37
"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
55
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
19
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
76
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
12
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
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"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
61
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
58
"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
13
"In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them."
50
"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."
39
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
61
"No nation was ever ruined by trade."
29
"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."
59
"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."
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"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore."
12
"There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can."
78
"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."
63
"There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America."
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"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
19
"If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure."
73
"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."
46
"It is not every question that deserves an answer."
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