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The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
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The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
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The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -but never jam today.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
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The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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