The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of
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If you really want to do something, you'll find a way;
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The true test of a first-rate mind is the ability
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When someone gets something for nothing
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb
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... the negroes had been regarded as beings of an inferior order ...
so far inferior that they had no rights which a white man
was bound to respect.
In the Dred-Scott Decision, 1857 |
The two hardest things to handle in life are
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The pessimist may be right in the long run,
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The business of leaders, of heroes, is tricky.
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It will never be possible for any length of time for any
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Great minds discuss ideas,
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The difference between genius and stupidity is
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Love at first sight is easy to understand.
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May be if we did a better job at listening, history
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Since when do you have to agree with people
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Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent
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And who are the greater criminals - those who sell the
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very
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They never fail who die
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The heights by great men reached and kept
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But be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany
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A marriage should be necessitated by economic satisfiability
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Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the
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Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by
Jackasses.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Leibowitz's Rule:
When hammering a nail, you will never hit your finger if you
hold the hammer with both hands.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is
doing the thinking.
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I only regret that I have but only one life to loose
for my country.
Speech before his execution, Sept., 1776 |
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not
enough to make us love, one another.
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Man, biologically considered, ... is the most formidable of all the
beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically
on its own species.
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... What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is
what you feel bad after ...
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority
of any clearly written constitutional right, it might,
in any moral point of view, justify revolution - ...
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What good is having someone who can walk on water if you can't follow in his footsteps? |
An American is a person who isn't afraid to criticize the President but is always polite to traffic cops. |
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most
insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are
required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and
exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
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College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the
faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if
the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms,
legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the
loss to humanity.
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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Teamwork is essential -- it allows you to blame someone else. |
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. |
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now
I'm beginning to believe it.
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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the
shoulders of giants.
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side
with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders.
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In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.
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No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats --
approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you
don't think.
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But
above all, try something.
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It's not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer
of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred
by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because
there is no effort without error and shortcomming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows
great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the
end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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