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| When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. |
Plato |
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| The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first appears he is a protector. |
Plato |
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| Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. |
Plato |
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| The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. |
Plato |
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| There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| The law is a horrible business. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| None meet life honestly and few heroically. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| To think is to differ. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to |
Clarence Darrow |
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| I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. |
Clarence Darrow |
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| Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. |
Steve Wozniak |
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| It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. |
Bobby Jones |
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| The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. |
Eric Hoffer |
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| Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before. |
Shel Silverstein |
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| The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and war As the people all shout and the airplane roar, So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm, And I WILL NOT HATCH |
Shel Silverstein |
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| Years and sins are always more than owned. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. |
Italian Proverb |
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| It is a good answer that knows when to stop. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. |
Italian Proverb |
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| By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Love rules without rules. |
Italian Proverb |
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| He who is not impatient is not in love. |
Italian Proverb |
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| He who knows little quickly tells it. |
Italian Proverb |
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| He who knows nothing doubts nothing. |
Italian Proverb |
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| If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Let every fox take care of his own tail. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Speak of the devil and he appears. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Who depends on another man's table often dines late. |
Italian Proverb |
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| The best armor is to keep out of range. |
Italian Proverb |
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| It is not enough to aim you must hit. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Bed is the poor man's opera. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind. |
Italian Proverb |
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| To a quick question, give a slow answer. |
Italian Proverb |
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| Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. |
Thomas Gray |
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| Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. |
Robert Herrick |
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| Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. |
Robert Herrick |
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| When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| The great question which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want |
Sigmund Freud |
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| Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| One is very crazy when in love. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| Anatomy is destiny. |
Sigmund Freud |
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| The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. |
Sigmund Freud |
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