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The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore.
We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?'
If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.
The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.
I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.
to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.
At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.
Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.
Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.
It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.
It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows.
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.
I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.
The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . .
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.
People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.