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"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
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"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."
Ignorance
"The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different."
Life
"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."
Society
"One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one."
Experience
"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration."
Family
"Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being."
Power
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
Society
"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently."
History
"Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."
Conversation
"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."
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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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Personal Development
"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."
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Personal Development
"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
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Personal Development
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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Personal Development
"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."
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Personal Development
"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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Personal Development
"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."
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Personal Development
"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Nobody's sane above the law."
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Personal Development
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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