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“In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other”
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“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
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“All generalizations are false, including this one.”
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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“There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
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“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
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“All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it”
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“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”
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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”
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