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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept responsibility for changing them.
It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!
High expectations are the key to everything.
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he--for some reason--thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
The very idea of the power and right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
I think there is a world market for about five computers.
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseperable.
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Gasoline is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
It matters not whether you win or lose; It matters whether I win or lose.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed--they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Moral indignation is jealously with a halo.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cusion with a sword.
Should the police actually succeed in eliminating all crime, they will simultaneously succeed in eliminating themselves as a necessary adjunct to society, and no organized force or power will ever eliminate itself willingly.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong, without comment.
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetant old age than I do any form of death.
Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them like whole truths that plays the devil.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality what they dislike.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
The safest general characteristic of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes one far too conceited.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
You can pick out the actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.
We have to distrust each other. It's our only defence against betrayal.
The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
True genius lies not in doing extraordinary things but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens. Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you by the seat of the pants.
Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.
I think, therefore I'm single.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage to them.
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. It isn't supposed to work. We are supposed to work it.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears.
