The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
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Nation   
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Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
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Mankind   
Human Nature   
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Subject:
Education   
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Subject:
Courage   
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Subject:
Discovery   
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I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
Subject:
Sarcasm   
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Subject:
Pessimism   
Philosophical   
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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Subject:
Parents   
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Subject:
Words   
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I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
Subject:
Opinions   
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Subject:
Imagination   
Work:
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Subject:
Congress   
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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Subject:
Character   
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
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Congress   
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I've never let my school interfere with my education.
Subject:
Education   
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Subject:
Belief   
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Subject:
Humor   
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I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Subject:
Education   
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Subject:
Truth   
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Subject:
Religion   
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