favourite quotes

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Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go way

[Tiwaking!]

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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As I’ve got older, I am more interested in having a belief. If you don’t it makes everything seem pointless. To only think ‘you’re alive, you have acne and then you die’ makes you wonder what it’s all for.

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Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

[Splatters]

"Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night"--Unknown

[Splatters]

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes."--Unknown

[Tiwaking!]

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king

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When you're ugly and someone loves you, you know they love you for who you are. Beautiful people never know who to trust.

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A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

[Tiwaking!]

You can democratically vote for socialism, but the only way to remove it is with bloodshed.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing;
drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable

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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking

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You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

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These blue days and this sun of childhood

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Who you are is limited only by who you think you are

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Any treasure you attain without anyone working for it is no treasure at all

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If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason

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Instead of being ashamed of what you couldn't do before, look forward at what you can do from now on

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Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests

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in the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion

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He is not lonely who takes pride in solitude

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Countries can survive war and famines and disease. They cannot survive leaders who despise their own people

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It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled