"When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work."

Cocteau, Jean on originality
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"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."

Mamet, David on police   

"If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on police   

"Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on originality   

"An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department."

Lippmann, Walter on alliances   

"The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on courage   

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on security   

"Forbidden things have a secret charm."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on scarcity
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"Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on opinions
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"The more corrupt the state, the more laws."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on law and lawyers
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"It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on hatred
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"If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice."

Baxter, Bowen on preachers and preaching   

"We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously."

Camus, Albert on certainty   

"When we are not sure, we are alive."

Greene, Graham on certainty   

"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."

Mencken, H. L. on certainty
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"Certainties are arrived at only on foot."

Porchia, Antonio on certainty   

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous."

Proverb, Chinese on certainty
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

Yeats, William Butler on certainty   

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."

Lasch, Christopher on debate   

"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jefferson, Thomas on principles
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"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."

Kroc, Ray on principles
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"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on principles   

"I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed."

Twain, Mark on principles   

"Prosperity is the best protector of principle."

Twain, Mark on principles   

"Big thinking precedes great achievement."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on dream
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"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."

Bennett, Thomas A. on achievement
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"It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up."

Sorenson, Charles on organization
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"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office."

Aesop on respectability
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"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on respectability
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"Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on respectability   

"Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."

Cleaver, Eldridge on respectability
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"Men are respectable only as they respect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on respectability
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"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."

Gardner, John W. on respectability
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"Respect a man, he will do it the more."

Howell, James on respectability   

"Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled."

Johnson, Samuel on respectability
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"I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them."

Lehman, Herbert Henry on respectability
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"I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is the Alternative?"

Trent, Lord on questions   

"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer. It is joy and art."

Carman, Bliss on originality   

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."

Dali, Salvador on originality
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"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."

De Chateaubriand on originality
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