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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."

"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."

"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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