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Thomas E Dewey: You can't shoot...

Thomas E Dewey: You can't shoot...

You can't shoot an idea.

Source: Debate with Harold Stassen on whether to outlaw...

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Walter F Mondale: Political image is...

Walter F Mondale: Political image is...

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it...

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Walter Benjamin: Genuine polemics approach...

Walter Benjamin: Genuine polemics approach...

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

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Colin Powell: Perpetual optimism is...

Colin Powell: Perpetual optimism is...

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Source: In Reader's Digest.
-- Colin...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: The only good...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: The only good...

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Source: In...

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F Scott Fitzgerald: To write it,...

F Scott Fitzgerald: To write it,...

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it -- three minutes; to collect the data in it -- all my...

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Phillips Brooks: Do not pray...

Phillips Brooks: Do not pray...

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal...

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Hosea Ballou: It is but...

Hosea Ballou: It is but...

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

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Henry Ward Beecher: A person without...

Henry Ward Beecher: A person without...

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the...

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Frederick Robertson: Men. . ....

Frederick Robertson: Men. . ....

Men. . . are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted...

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: You could not...

Heraclitus of Ephesus: You could not...

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to...

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Simone Weil: Real genius is...

Simone Weil: Real genius is...

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of...

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Plutarch: Another such victory...

Plutarch: Another such victory...

Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.

Source: In Quotable...

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Jeremy Bentham: The schoolmaster is...

Jeremy Bentham: The schoolmaster is...

The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military...

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Joseph Conrad: He who wants...

Joseph Conrad: He who wants...

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has...

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C S Lewis: Aim at heaven...

C S Lewis: Aim at heaven...

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

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Hosea Ballou: Real happiness is...

Hosea Ballou: Real happiness is...

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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Alan W Watts: Things are as...

Alan W Watts: Things are as...

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong...

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Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are invented...

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to...

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Gaston Bachelard: A special kind...

Gaston Bachelard: A special kind...

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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