Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Nothing ever goes away.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
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A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
