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Quotes by Statesman
"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
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"Good intentions aren't enough, you must take right actions."
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"Make your problems becomeopportunities instead ofobstacles."
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"Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar."
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"The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."
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"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another."
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"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
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"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power."
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"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."
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"That fatal drollery called a representative government."
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"Stop hating yourself for the things you have not and start loving yourself for the things that you have."
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"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."
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"Nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character."
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"In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
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"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."
Soul,
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"We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest."
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"Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found."
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"I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful."
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"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
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"Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator!"
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"Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art."
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"When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter."
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"Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat."
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"We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people."
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"Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."
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"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."
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"If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better."
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"Your purpose has the capacity to employ and enrich you for a lifetime."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him."
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"During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened."
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"Thought leadership is first and foremost life leadership."
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"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."
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"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."
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