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| Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise ... the bleeding will not end. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| In crises the most daring course is often safest. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it ... I thought it would be me. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were and say Why not |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. |
Robert Francis Kennedy |
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| Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. |
Ben Stein |
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| The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want. |
Ben Stein |
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| The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. |
Ben Stein |
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| You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot. |
Ben Stein |
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| There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.... |
Ben Stein |
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| It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders. |
Ben Stein |
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| He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. |
Fletcher |
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| Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. |
Alfred L. Kroeber |
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| Motherhood All love begins and ends there. |
Robert Browning |
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| A minute's success pays the failure of years. |
Robert Browning |
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| Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for |
Robert Browning |
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| My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made. |
Robert Browning |
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| Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid |
Robert Browning |
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| To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life. |
Robert Browning |
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| What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. |
Robert Browning |
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| Grow old along with me the best is yet to be. |
Robert Browning |
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| Ignorance is not innocence but sin. |
Robert Browning |
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| What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept |
Robert Browning |
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| Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph |
Robert Browning |
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| I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. |
Robert Browning |
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| No man is ever old enough to know better. |
Holbrook Jackson |
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| Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. |
Holbrook Jackson |
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| Be contented when you have got all you want. |
Holbrook Jackson |
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| Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. |
Erich Fromm |
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| In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. |
Erich Fromm |
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| We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' |
Erich Fromm |
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| That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate. |
Erich Fromm |
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| A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. |
Erich Fromm |
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| The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be incompleteness in absence. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self. |
Erich Fromm |
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| If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. |
Erich Fromm |
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| There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. |
Erich Fromm |
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| There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. |
Erich Fromm |
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| The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. |
Erich Fromm |
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| If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. |
Erich Fromm |
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| The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it. |
Erich Fromm |
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| The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies |
Erich Fromm |
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| The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. |
Erich Fromm |
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| One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. |
Erich Fromm |
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| To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Dreams - A microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. |
Erich Fromm |
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| The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Man's main task is to give birth to himself. |
Erich Fromm |
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| Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life. |
Brigham Young |
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| The best remedy for anger is delay. |
Brigham Young |
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| Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more. |
Brigham Young |
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| Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere. |
Brigham Young |
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| I swear to the LordI still can't seeWhy Democracy meansEverybody but me. |
Langston Hughes, uThe Black Man Speaksu |
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| Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. |
Sloan Wilson |
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| The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. |
Sloan Wilson |
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| There are three things men can do with women love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. |
Stephen Stills |
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| Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. |
Lin Yutang |
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| If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. |
Lin Yutang |
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| Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. |
Lin Yutang |
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| This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor to change the character of our thought. |
Lin Yutang |
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| 'I have done my best.' That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. |
Lin Yutang |
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| Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either. |
Gerald Barzan |
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| A fool and his money are soon parted. |
Thomas Tusser |
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| For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine, For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine, For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve, For the next matrons or drudges they serve, For the next doth crave a staff for a stay, For the next a bier to fetch them away. |
Thomas Tusser |
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| Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health. |
Thomas Tusser |
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| We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on another. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| May you live every day of your life. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning |
Jonathan Swift |
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| Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| May you live all the days of your life. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| Argument is the worst sort of conversation. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. |
Jonathan Swift |
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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. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| I row after health like a waterman... |
Jonathan Swift |
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| One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. |
Jonathan Swift |
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| No wise man ever wished to be younger. |
Jonathan Swift |
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