"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on politics   

"The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on peace   

"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on nuclear age   

"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on example
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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on friends and friendship
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"The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on heresy   

"There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on human spirit   

"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on leadership   

"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on liberals   

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on listening
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"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on mother-in-laws
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"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on names
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"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

Butler, Samuel on evil   

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"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."

Butler, Samuel on joy
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"A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war."

Butler, Samuel on doctors   

"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper."

Butler, Samuel on debate
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"Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it can't even escape from being found by its like. Even when it's just like in one thing, because even them two with the same like was different."

Faulkner, William on like
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"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."

Faulkner, William on science   

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies."

Faulkner, William on writers and writing   

"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

Faulkner, William on writers and writing
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"If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us."

Faulkner, William on writers and writing   

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

Faulkner, William on action
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"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."

Faulkner, William on suffering
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"The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."

Faulkner, William on quarrels
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"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."

Butler, Samuel on excess   

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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

Butler, Samuel on experience
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"It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk."

Butler, Samuel on alcohol and alcoholism   

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"He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."

Butler, Samuel on agreement   

"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship
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"We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them."

Butler, Samuel on forgiveness   

"There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon."

Butler, Samuel on fools and foolishness   

"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."

Butler, Samuel on food and eating   

"Eating is touch carried to the bitter end."

Butler, Samuel on food and eating   

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"Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life."

Butler, Samuel on fathers   

"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

Butler, Samuel on faith
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"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth."

Butler, Samuel on faith
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"The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them."

Butler, Samuel on experts
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"Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed."

Butler, Samuel on alliances   

"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."

Faulkner, William on patience
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"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."

Kennedy, John F. on freedom
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