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In the unlikely story that is America, there has never
been anything false about hope. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every
rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger
and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. War is always an admission of failure and the worst
solution. I'd rather be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish
Christian. True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. For everyone you lose we will lose ten, but you will tire first. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very
nature.
A calm, clear mind, not subject to the spasms and
crises
which are so often met with in creative or intensely perceptive natures,
is the best basis for love or friendship. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight. It's the
size of the fight in the dog. All warfare is based on deception. |
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During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. Lighthouses are more useful than churches. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not, genius will not, education alone
will not.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. They know everything. Unfortunately, they don't know anything else. ...the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on
the Christian religion... Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross
a chasm in two small jumps. I hope never to meet a man so dull he could think
of only one way to spell a word. I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose. A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know.
For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. We will either find a way, or make one. While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal
element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by
a bodyguard of lies. |
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Revise and live without all dread; The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Don't be so humble. You're not that
great. If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will
stop telling the truth about them. This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were not
religion in it. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity.
Microsoft has demonstrated it will use its prodigious market power and immense profits to
harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition
against one of Microsoft's core products. |
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you
more than he knows. The Empires of the future are the Empires of the mind. Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing
less. I am not a member of any Christian church. A precedent embalms a principle. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she's in
hot water. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Am I not destroying my enemies by making friends of them? |
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He who imitates what
is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who
imitates what is good always falls short. If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind
than in the one where they sprung up. The innovator has for enemies
all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who
may do well under the new law. Life is short; live it up. The most radical revolutionary will become a
conservative the day after the revolution. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. Where we all think alike, no one thinks
very much. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the
heart of a heartless world. It is the opium of the people. Man's mind, stretched to a new idea,
never goes back to its original shape. Talent ... must be stimulated. The country will not manage without it. He's no failure. He's not dead yet. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. |
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Early to bed, early to
rise, work like hell and organize. Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, if there be one, he
must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's fifth husband.
I know what I'm supposed to do but I don't know if I can make it interesting. That the brain runs away with the heart's best blood,
which gives the world a few pages of wisdom or sentiment or poetry,
instead of making one other heart happy, I have no question. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Dissent has always been the principal catalyst in the alchemy of
truth.
You don't need to be straight to fight an die for your country. You just
need to shoot straight. No man or woman who does not see visions
will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature,
since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a
mind to do. Adversity builds
character. Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Always do more than is required of you. |
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