"And so the reliance on Property, including the……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.…
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We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
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I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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