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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.…
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control…
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to…
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen…
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human…
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Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the…
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When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
— Joseph Joubert
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Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a…
— Heinrich Heine
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Ben Jonson
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
— Chinua Achebe
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When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…
— Isaiah Berlin
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If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
— Gautama Buddha
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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
— Plato
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What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is…
— Gautama Buddha
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Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
— Publilius Syrus
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A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
— Heinrich Heine
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