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Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
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Johann von Goethe
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Bill Cosby
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
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Mae West
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
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Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955)
Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.
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Samuel Johnson
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
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Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it.
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Sophocles, Electra (c.409 BC)
The end excuses any evil.
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Mao Zedong
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.
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Miguel de Cervantes
All is not gold that glitters.
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Maurice Druon
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.
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