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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.
Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
To love someone is to catch your breath whenever he walks in the room.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.
Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.
Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach.
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.
Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.
Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.
In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.
Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.
This dogged, same track approach (by the NCI) is even more astonishing.
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.
I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.
For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying
For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.
The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.
The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.
Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.
The institution of the presidency was profoundly affected by Watergate.
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.