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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
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The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
A Battle For Life -
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
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The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
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The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
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The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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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 growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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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 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 key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
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