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In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
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In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
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Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
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It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
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It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
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It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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