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I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them. — Thomas A. Edison
When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about… — Nas
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England… — Oscar Wilde
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. — Henry Adams
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their… — Marcel Proust
Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs. — W. Somerset Maugham
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence… — Maria Montessori
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives… — Thorstein Veblen
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. — Benjamin Franklin
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. — Aldous Huxley
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is… — Epicurus
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable… — John Ruskin
People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is… — Cesar Chavez
...people think non-violence is really weak and non-militant. These are misconceptions that people have because they don't understand what non-violence means. Non-violence takes more guts,… — Cesar Chavez
Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become? It's the most… — Cesar Chavez
Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it. — Cesar Chavez
Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where people are using… — Cesar Chavez
We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together. — Cesar Chavez
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts. — Harriet Martineau
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is… — H. L. Mencken
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost… — Baruch Spinoza
How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in… — Michel de Montaigne

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