"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world."

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"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world."

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"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"A true man hates no one."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know."

Dorothy Stratten, Canadian Celebrity

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"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great."

William John Wills, English Scientist

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"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

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"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."

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"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."

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"All authority belongs to the people."

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"No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."

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"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."

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"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

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"No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place."

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"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace."

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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

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