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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."
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"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."

"The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive."

"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

"We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people."

"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."
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"The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction."

"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic."

"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."

"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."

"Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all."

"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"

"The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life."

"Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States."
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