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My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.
Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life (2017) 74 -
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.
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Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
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That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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