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I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

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The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

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Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

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My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

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The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

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Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

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I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

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To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

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Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

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Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

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He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.

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The United States does not torture.

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The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."

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Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

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Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

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If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.

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