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You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one: but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it…To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.
Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
