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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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A president and a party that can provide insurance for 31 million more Americans is far preferable to most voters than a party that only says, 'No.'
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.
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A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
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