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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."
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Personal Development
"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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Personal Development
"There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."
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Personal Development
"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."
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Personal Development
"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."
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Personal Development
"A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
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Personal Development
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
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Personal Development
"These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do."
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Personal Development
"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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Personal Development
"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."
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"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."
Money
"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it."
Power
"Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life."
Life
"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."
Risk
"Ideas control the world."
Creativity
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
Man
"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
College
"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."
Man
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
Education
"Justice and goodwill will outlast passion."
Justice
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