"No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on minorities
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"We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much."

Bush, George on recession   

"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."

Baudelaire, Charles on beauty
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"Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others."

Carlyle, Thomas on potential
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"Go further...treat others as THEY would like to be treated"

McCarthy, Fred on kindness
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"The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege."

Helps, Sir Arthur on women   

"The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment."

Helps, Sir Arthur on advice
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"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."

Fowler, Gene on advice
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"The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on modesty
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"That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."

Colby, Frank Moore on modesty   

"Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn."

Durant, William J. on teacher   

"Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fallibility
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"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on imitation   

"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."

Shaw, George Bernard on consequences   

"The lack of objectivity, as far as foreign nations are concerned, is notorious. From one day to another, another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while ones own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standardevery action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals which they serve. "

Fromm, Erich on uncategorised
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"The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on surprises
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"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on commonplace   

"We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity."

Vaneigem, Raoul on commonplace   

"The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate."

Reston, James on america   

"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. on infatuation
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"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

Thackeray, William M. on attitude
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"Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on guilt   

"The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important."

Ballou, Hosea on freedom   

"He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise."

Blake, William on joy
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"I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."

Blake, William on resentment
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"You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on resentment
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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

Bach, Richard on writers and writing
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."

Ford, Henry on simplicity
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"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell on dream
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not."

Wilde, Oscar on husbands
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"A good husband makes a good wife."

Florio, John on husbands   

"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on bores and boredom
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"Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on candor
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"Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape."

Hazlitt, William on education
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"Fascism is a European inquietude. It is a way of knowing everything -- history, the State, the achievement of the proletarianization of public life, a new way of knowing the phenomena of our epoch."

Rivera, J. A. Primo De on fascism   

"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on fascism
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"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Warhol, Andy on responsibility
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus on gratitude
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"Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob."

Seneca on masses