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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves…
— Blaise Pascal
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Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of…
— Edgar Friedenberg
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Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused…
— Jiang Zemin
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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
— William Hazlitt
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As you get older, the heart shed its leaves like a tree. You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears…
— Gustave Flaubert
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She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and…
— Paolo Giordano
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Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.
— Chris Kilham
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When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform…
— Al Sharpton
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