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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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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me…
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There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon,…
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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.
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The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking…
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know…
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so…
— H. L. Mencken
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My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry…
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Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
— Ron Reagan
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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
— Janet Morris
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Indians and animals know better how to live than white man; nobody can be in good health if he does not have…
— Unknown Author
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Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.
— Bill Shankly
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education…
— Bernie Siegel
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