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Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

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Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

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That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

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The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

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If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

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What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

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Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

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Don't dream your life, but live your dream

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Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

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No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

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Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

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It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.

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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

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When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

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And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

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When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

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His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

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