"The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks."
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"The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved."
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"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good."
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"By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!"
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"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything."
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"I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way."
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"We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you"
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"So act that anything you do may become universal law."
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"It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
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"The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity."
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"Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."
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"Don't think, but look! (PI 66)"
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"Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that."
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"An idea is a feat of association."
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"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."
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"The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep."
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"Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!"
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"We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always."
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"Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!"
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"There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living."
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