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"If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree."
"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."
"So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel."
"A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do."
"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
"That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading."
"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice."
"Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves."
"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."
"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
"The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like."
"A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does."
"The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself."
"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us."
"A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself."
"Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much."
"I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process."
"You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go."
"The 'you' who you think you are does not exist."
"No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing."
