"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."

Buck, Pearl S. on freedom
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"Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings."

Rushdie, Salman on fanatics and fanaticism   

"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."

Clark, Ramsey on public   

"We see things as we are, not as they are."

Rosten, Leo on appearance
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"Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. "

Bryan, William Jennings on uncategorised   

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised   

"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised
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"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on evil
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"No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on destiny   

"Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence."

Wilson, Robert on belief   

"You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want."

Wieder, Marcia on belief
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"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

Franklin, Benjamin on government
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"On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died."

Vidal, Gore on america
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"CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things."

Levitt, Theodore on innovation
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"Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"Our necessities never equal our wants."

Franklin, Benjamin on want
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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"Most fools think they are only ignorant."

Franklin, Benjamin on fools and foolishness
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"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."

Duchamp, Marcel on contradiction
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"I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money."

Rainbow, George Weiss on imagination
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"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

Beecher, Henry Ward on imagination
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"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking
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"The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger."

Shakespeare, William on risk
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"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward."

Collier, Robert on risk   

"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on competition
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

Davis, Bette on possibilities   

"Who then is the man who fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him. [Psalm 25:12]"

Bible on direction
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"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

Twain, Mark on humor
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

Twain, Mark on prayer
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"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

Johnson, Samuel on secrets
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

Einstein, Albert on perseverance
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"People who take risks are the people you'll lose against."

Sculley, John on risk
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"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."

Garcia, Jerry on choice
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"A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing."

Proverb, Spanish on equality   

"In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be."

Smith, Huston on reality