All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.
~ James Baldwin
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Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
~ Mark Twain
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Sometimes, association does prove guilt. That’s why the U.S. has laws against racketeering and membership in prohibited terrorist organizations.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent — which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it.
~ James Baldwin
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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
~ Mark Twain
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
~ Sun Tzu
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Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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