Martin Luther Quotes
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
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He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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He was our Jackie Robinson, ... He wanted to make sure you had a place to live, that you were getting food to eat. Some guys, they only learned enough English to order one thing. He wanted to make sure you had money. If you didn't have money for something, he would give it to you.
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When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
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I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.
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You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
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I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
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And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
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I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.
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Survival must come before civilization.
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What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
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I think Hillary Clinton understands the ins and outs of the White House better than anyone who's come before her.
