When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existance
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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it
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To be sensitive is to feel the thoughts and hearts of others as only you would want yours felt
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Within your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go
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To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation
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There are those who will always confuse courtesy with cowardess, and politeness for weakness
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
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True definition of a pioneer.....you have arrows in your back!
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Far better it is
To dare mighty things
To win glorious triumphs
Even though checkered with failure
Than to live in that grey twilight
That knows neither victory nor defeat
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved through understanding
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I have no moral obligation to obey an immoral law
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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crises that maintain their neutrality.
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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects something that cannot be
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Truth is truth even when spoken by a liar
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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public
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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
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While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed. But this creed certainly will do for this life.
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I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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When God gives you lemons...find a new God
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A good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge
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Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term 'we' or 'us' and at the same time decreases those labeled 'you' or 'them' until that category has no one left in it.
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I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of its barbarous ancestors.
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He may look like an idiot
and talk like an idiot
but don't let that fool you.
He really is an idiot
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I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent.
People know this, and steer clear of me at parties.
Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me
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Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time
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The covers of this book are too far apart
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I would rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck
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I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it
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Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned.
Only after the last fish has been caught.
Only then you will find that money cannot be eaten
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The only possible alternative to being the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all
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Fighting crime by building more jails is like fighting cancer by building more cemeteries
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I know there are people in this world who do not love their fellow man, and I H A T E people like that
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What is hateful...is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are the men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone
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The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake those, you've got it made
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Capitalism is not a success. It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous and it doesn't deliver the goods. In short, we dislike it, and we are beginning to despise it. But when we wonder what to put in its place, we are extremely perplexed
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To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man
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To create a new culture does not only mean to make original discoveries on an individual basis. It also and especially means to critically popularize already discovered truths, make them, so to speak, social, therefore give them the consistency of basis for vital actions, make them coordinating elements of intellectual and social relevance
