Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
BENJAMIN DISRAELIExperience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
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You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.
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The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
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Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
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