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This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.

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We are all ill; but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

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The poet ... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

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Political Movements Quote

My interest is not in the capture of power, but in the control of power by the people.

- Jayaprakash Narayan

Relationship Quote

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.

- Sam Slick

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No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

- Marilyn Monroe

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

- Maxim Gorky

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