"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Voltaire on freedom
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"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."

Voltaire on friends and friendship
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire on god
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire on government
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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire on death
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"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards."

Lincoln, Abraham on perseverance
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"Knowledge is power."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

Adams, Franklin P. on knowledge
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"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."

Abbott, John on knowledge
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"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."

Buddha on belief
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

Jefferson, Thomas on soldier
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"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."

Jefferson, Thomas on tyranny
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

Jefferson, Thomas on tyranny
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"A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."

Wilde, Oscar on tyranny
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."

Franklin, Benjamin on debt
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on fame
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Jefferson, Thomas on evolution
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"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

Jefferson, Thomas on procrastination
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"A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

Jefferson, Thomas on medicine
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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Hugo, Victor on listening
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."

Wilde, Oscar on motives
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."

Twain, Mark on faith
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."

Stalin, Joseph on statistics
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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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