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| We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. |
Louis D. Brandeis |
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| America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. |
Louis D. Brandeis |
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| Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. |
Louis D. Brandeis |
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| Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values. |
Louis D. Brandeis |
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| Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. |
Louis D. Brandeis |
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| The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. |
Sallust |
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| They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. |
Sallust |
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| Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. |
Sallust |
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| A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. |
Sallust |
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| The higher your station, the less your liberty. |
Sallust |
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| Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master. |
Sallust |
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| To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful. |
Sallust |
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| Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. |
Sallust |
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| The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals. |
Sallust |
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| Every man is the architect of his own fortune. |
Sallust |
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| Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act. |
Sallust |
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| To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. |
Sallust |
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| The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. |
Sallust |
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| A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. |
Kenneth A. Wells |
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| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. |
Sydney Smith |
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| He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop. |
Sydney Smith |
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| Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. |
Sydney Smith |
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| Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. |
Sydney Smith |
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| It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. |
Sydney Smith |
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| It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. |
Sydney Smith |
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| A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. |
Sydney Smith |
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| Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. |
Sydney Smith |
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| Live always in the best company when you read. |
Sydney Smith |
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| Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. |
Sydney Smith |
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| You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. |
Sydney Smith |
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| To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. |
Sydney Smith |
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| He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. |
Sydney Smith |
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| Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. |
Sydney Smith |
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| There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all. |
Sydney Smith |
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| Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. |
Sydney Smith |
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| A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose. |
Rob Cella |
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| The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| The great end of life is not knowledge but action. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. |
Thomas Huxley |
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| When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. |
W. H. Auden |
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| What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. |
W. H. Auden |
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| Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered. |
W. H. Auden |
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| A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. |
W. H. Auden |
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| We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. |
W. H. Auden |
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| No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. |
W. H. Auden |
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| Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. |
W. H. Auden |
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| Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh. |
W. H. Auden |
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| One cannot review a bad book without showing off. |
W. H. Auden |
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| Love builds bridges where there are none. |
R. H. Delaney |
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| If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. |
Mark Twain |
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| The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. |
Mark Twain |
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| Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. |
Mark Twain |
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| Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. |
Mark Twain |
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| In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. |
Mark Twain |
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| We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. |
Mark Twain |
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| The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. |
Mark Twain |
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| Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. |
Mark Twain |
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| We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. |
Mark Twain |
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| Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. |
Mark Twain |
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| It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. |
Mark Twain |
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| The report of my death was an exaggeration. |
Mark Twain |
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| Golf is a good walk spoiled. |
Mark Twain |
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| We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened. |
Mark Twain |
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| I never let schooling interfere with my education. |
Mark Twain |
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| Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I repeat myself. |
Mark Twain |
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| The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. |
Mark Twain |
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| To cease smoking is the easiset thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times. |
Mark Twain |
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| Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. |
Mark Twain |
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| Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money. |
Mark Twain |
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| Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. |
Mark Twain |
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| The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. |
Mark Twain |
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| Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time. |
Mark Twain |
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| Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket. |
Mark Twain |
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| On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. |
Mark Twain |
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| Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. |
Mark Twain |
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| The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven. |
Mark Twain |
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| Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. |
Mark Twain |
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| Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself envied. |
Mark Twain |
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| I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. |
Mark Twain |
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| Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. |
Mark Twain |
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| Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense. |
Mark Twain |
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| It is easier to stay out than get out. |
Mark Twain |
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