"You are remembered for the rules you break."

Macarthur, Douglas on rules
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Franklin, Benjamin on liberty
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"People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him."

Bailey, Pearl on god
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"Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison, Thomas A. on genius
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"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

Paine, Thomas on purpose
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"The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes."

Beecher, Henry Ward on class   

"You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be."

Thomas, David on choice   

"If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them ."

Berra, Yogi on baseball   

"You are within God. God is within you."

Pilgrim, Peace on god
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"The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."

Douglas, William O. on government
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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

Hugo, Victor on laughter
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Durant, William J. on family
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on flowers
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"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."

Dane, Frank on books - reading   

"When you're through changing, you're through."

Barton, Bruce on change
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"If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it."

Hays, Brian on perseverance
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"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on propaganda
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"If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land."

James, Henry on exile
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"A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him."

Letterman, Elmer G. on blame
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"There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening."

Metheny, Pat on jazz   

"Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun"

Henley, Don on violence
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"To live outside the law, you must be honest."

Dylan, Bob on honesty   

"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something."

Rostand, Jean on age and aging
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"Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [With] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff."

Luce, Clare Boothe on communism and socialism   

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

Buffett, Warren on reputation
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"The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair."

Vorse, Mary Heaton on writers and writing   

"Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on fear
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"A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived."

Williams, Ted on goals   

"That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."

Lincoln, Abraham on wealth   

"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

Davis, Bette on impossibility
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"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."

Mencken, H. L. on churches
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"Will it, and set to work briskly."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on power   

"We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming."

Novalis on dream
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"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

Roosevelt, Theodore on immigration
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it."

Vizinczey, Stephen on stupidity
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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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"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Dylan, Bob on success
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"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better."

Phillips, Wendell on failure
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