I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
Subject:
Effort   
Luck   
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Subject:
Democracy   
Politicians   
Government   
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Subject:
Happiness   
Worries   
Human Nature   
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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
Subject:
Language   
Socialism   
Communism   
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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Subject:
Success   
Goal   
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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
Subject:
Humor   
Sarcasm   
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Subject:
Reality   
Money   
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Subject:
Opinions   
Human Nature   
Understand   
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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
Subject:
Community   
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
Subject:
Children   
Failure   
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes   
Sincerity   
Human Nature   
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Subject:
Children   
Parents   
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Hell is full of musical amateurs
Subject:
Fate & Destiny   
Hereafter   
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Subject:
Capitalism   
Selfish   
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Ignorance   
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
Subject:
Mankind   
Human Nature   
Coward   
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
Subject:
Politics   
Opinions   
Human Nature   
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
Subject:
War   
Peace   
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
Subject:
War   
Military   
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Subject:
Life   
Desires   
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