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Opinion Journalist Inspirational Quotes (9569)

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All men cannot go to college but some men must every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have for the talented few centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living, as to have no aims higher than their bellies, and no God greater than Gold.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and most of them are probably even useless for filming Dune sequels.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
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If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
Gore Vidal
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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses
Oscar Wilde
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Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.
Andrzej Stasiuk
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No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
Thomas Paine
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You want to be very careful about lying otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
Mark Twain
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The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.
Noam Chomsky
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Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
Leo Tolstoy
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Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
Oscar Wilde
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
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In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
Mark Twain
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
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[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
Mark Twain
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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Christopher Morley
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They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their clothes or shout prophecies on street corners, only to revert to normal after a few days' treatment.
Amos Elon
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