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Lyndon B. Johnson
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
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Upton Sinclair
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
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George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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Carl Sagan
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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Samuel McChord Crothers
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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William Penn
Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
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Thomas Fuller
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
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The Talmud
The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
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Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
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Denis Watley
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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