"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on riches   

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"My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky."

Faulkner, William on writers and writing   

"When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket."

Snow, Dan on teacher
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"I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself."

Levant, Oscar on selfishness
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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being."

Gandhi, Mahatma on nonviolence
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"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers."

Diderot, Denis on philosophers and philosophy
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"The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]"

Shakespeare, William on law and lawyers
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"The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."

Shaw, George Bernard on poverty and the poor   

"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on science
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on flowers
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"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."

Dawes, Charles G. on mediocrity   

"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."

Roosevelt, Theodore on trade unions   

"Mystery is not profoundness."

Colton, Charles Caleb on mystery   

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Mead, Margaret on work
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"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

Brown, Les on opinions
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"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

Williams, Tennessee on loneliness
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"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

Holtz, Lou on adversity
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"He does not weep who does not see."

Hugo, Victor on cries and crying
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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Hugo, Victor on education
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"One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

Russell, Bertrand on health
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"There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors."

Morrison, Jim on knowledge
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"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Swift, Jonathan on genius
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"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

Mencken, H. L. on puritans
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"A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver."

Koysis, Ted on ideas
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"Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it."

Mcluhan, Marshall on babies
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"'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on wealth   

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"They do injury to the good who spares the bad."

Syrus, Publilius on justice   

"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. Hoffer, Eric "

Hoffer, Eric on change   

"Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."

Frost, Robert on grammar   

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on work
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"You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free."

Darrow, Clarence on freedom
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"Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on fate
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on insanity
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"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."

Houston, Sam on education
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"Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood."

Trilling, Lionel on obscurity
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"It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being."

Disraeli, Benjamin on marriage
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"Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity."

Lombardi, Vince on work   

"A nation's treasure is its scholars."

Proverb, Yiddish on wisdom
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"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

Shaw, George Bernard on food and eating
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