"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."

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"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."

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"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."

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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."

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"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."

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"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

George Washington, American President

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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."

Muhammad Ali, American Athlete

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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."

"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."

"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."

"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."

"I would fain grow old learning many things."

"Courage is a kind of salvation."

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"He was a wise man who invented beer."

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

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"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."