"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."

DeVos, Richard M. on belief
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"The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do."

DeVos, Richard M. on conflict   

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."

DeVos, Richard M. on courage
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"Without discipline, there is no life at all."

Hepburn, Katharine on discipline
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"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

Hepburn, Katharine on joy
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"Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer."

Hepburn, Katharine on force
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"To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious."

Traherne, Thomas on love
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"Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child."

Traherne, Thomas on innocence   

"This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys."

Traherne, Thomas on infinity   

"You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars."

Traherne, Thomas on happiness   

"You never know yourself till you know more than your body."

Traherne, Thomas on knowledge   

"Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?"

Traherne, Thomas on childhood   

"The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain."

Traherne, Thomas on action   

"More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery."

Traherne, Thomas on company
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"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."

Traherne, Thomas on conceit
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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on debate
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"Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them."

Traherne, Thomas on happiness   

"Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us."

Traherne, Thomas on gratitude
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"I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love."

Traherne, Thomas on glory   

"The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul."

Mailer, Norman on desire
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"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."

Mailer, Norman on honor   

"In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent."

Mailer, Norman on irreverence   

"Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs."

Mailer, Norman on liberals
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"Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."

Mailer, Norman on newspapers
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"Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child."

Mailer, Norman on photography   

"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

Mailer, Norman on art
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"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."

Mailer, Norman on writers and writing   

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. "

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"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."

Mailer, Norman on democracy
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"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on democracy   

"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on politics   

"Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on pollution   

"Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on profits   

"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on propaganda   

"American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on public opinion   

"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on reality
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"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on evolution
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"Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on children
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"There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on civil rights
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"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on freedom
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