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- Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit…
- That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more…
- To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty…
- The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of…
- Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so…
- The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be…
- Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
- The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of…
- In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.…
- The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
- With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
- In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in…
- Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.…
- What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is…
- The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had…
- If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree…
- A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable…
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had…
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling…
- There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle