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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples."
Life

"Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment."
Change

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
People

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."
Ability

"If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union."
Work

"If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come."
People

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
Politics

"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
Government

"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."
Nature
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