The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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