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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
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A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
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All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
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All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
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America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
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