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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations.
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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
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Energy and persistence alter all things.
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Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
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Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
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Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! [As Margo Channing in All About Eve]
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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
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For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures; Little howe'er it seems, It is yours, all yours.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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