A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
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A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.
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Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital.
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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
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We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart.
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God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach
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In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist.
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.
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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
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