"To busy oneself with what is futile when……" — Jose Marti
"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity."
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84 Quotes by Jose Marti
Jose Marti has 84 quotes on this site.
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Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.
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Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.
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A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
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The only way to be totally free is through education.
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The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.
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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts,…
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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
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Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
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Oh, what company good poets are!
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
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