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Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.
The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.
Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.
People need to know who I am and where I'm coming from.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!
Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.
When family ties are disturbed, devoted children arise.
I do not act, and people become reformed by themselves.
If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.
If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.
Can you make your soul embrace the One and not lose it?
If you really want everything, then give up everything.
The sage attends to the belly, and not to what he sees.
To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.
Practice not-doing and everything will fall into place.
Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.
The one who is filled by virtue is like a newborn baby.
People are born soft and weak. They die hard and stiff.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.
... Their power to see environments as they really are.
There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
The feeling of compassion is the beginning of humanity.
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
One should never tie his faith to how old the earth is.
A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.
Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.