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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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When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is…
— Neil Abercrombie
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Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of…
— Corey Taylor
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
— Charles Lamb
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I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me
— Mark Harmon
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The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all…
— Alan Moore
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The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
— David Graeber
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Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I…
— Zhuangzi
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ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I…
— William Shakespeare
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God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.
— Ray Comfort
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Now the freaks are on television, the freaks are in the movies. And it's no longer the sideshow, it's the whole show.…
— Jonathan Winters
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For all intents and purposes, I am a woman
— Bruce Jenner
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