"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintance. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised   

"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."

Dali, Salvador on taste   

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."

Dali, Salvador on respectability   

"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude."

Camus, Albert on twentieth century   

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"Consistency is the foundation of virtue."

Bacon, Francis on consistency   

"Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit."

Bacon, Francis on conceit
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"Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth."

Fuller, Thomas on truth   

"A man surprised is half beaten."

Fuller, Thomas on surprises   

"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief ."

Fuller, Thomas on belief
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"A generous confession disarms slander."

Fuller, Thomas on slander   

"Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them."

Fuller, Thomas on promises   

"Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak."

Fuller, Thomas on pride   

"When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty."

Fuller, Thomas on argument
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."

Fuller, Thomas on appreciation
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"He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it."

Fuller, Thomas on appearance
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"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof."

Fuller, Thomas on learning   

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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."

Asimov, Isaac on self-improvement
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"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

Bacon, Francis on training   

"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."

Bacon, Francis on present
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"The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are."

Bacon, Francis on nationalities and nationalism   

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"In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues."

Bacon, Francis on ideas
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"Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings."

Bacon, Francis on doubt
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea."

Bacon, Francis on discovery
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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

Asimov, Isaac on books - reading
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"Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen."

Bacon, Francis on speech
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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Bacon, Francis on questions   

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"What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others."

Fuentes, Carlos on america
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"America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it."

Lawrence, D. H. on america   

"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-confidence
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"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

Gandhi, Mahatma on law and lawyers
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."

Gandhi, Mahatma on history and historians
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"Hatred can be overcome only by love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on hatred
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Gandhi, Mahatma on happiness
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