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"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery."
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
Leadership
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
Government
"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
People
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."
Philosophy
"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."
Man
"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
Party
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
Music
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
Trust
"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
Man
"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers."
Politics
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