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Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
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Bernard M. Baruch Quotes

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Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
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Rose F. Kennedy Quotes

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And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?
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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky Quotes

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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
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Tobias Smollett Quotes

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 ignorance  wisdom  

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If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

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 language  learning  wisdom  

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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
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Edward Teller Quotes

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
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Mark Twain Quotes

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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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 ideas  life  

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