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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

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There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

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