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- They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than…
- Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine,…
- There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
- Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own…
- Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not…
- There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance,…
- The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American.is…
- Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.
- It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while…
- Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or…
- The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a…
- Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the…
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- If she didn't reply to any of your 20 texts, she probably doesn't have good cell service. Definitely don't stop texting her. — Nikhil Saluja
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson