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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters…
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus…
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that…
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and…
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
— Aristotle
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My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.
— Elizabeth Kenny
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The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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No one conquers who doesn't fight.
— Unknown Author
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O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need…
— John L. Bates
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The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries.…
— Fritz Haber
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Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength.
— Pindar
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Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an…
— Henri Nouwen
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Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures.
— Percy Cerutty
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The force of union conquers all.
— Homer
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The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.
— Saint Augustine
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No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of…
— Stephen Charnock
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