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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
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Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Originaliteit is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
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