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"The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"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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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
Patriotism

"We can afford no liberties with liberty itself."
Liberty

"The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion."
Religion

"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
Government

"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
Man

"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."
Politics

"The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis."
Being

"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
Quality

"Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago."
Science

"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."
Government
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