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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
- Fatal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
- Dictatorship
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- Nov 07, 2020
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
- Begins
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
- Complete
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
- Codes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
- Civilization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
- Flame
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020