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141 quotes

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Personal journal

Usually the people who are the most generous are the people who have the least to give. I learned this first hand as a newspaper carrier when I was 12 years old. The biggest tips came from the poorest people.

1986

★ 0.8

Essay · Philosophical literature

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

1937

★ 1.0

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 1.1

Interview · TV program

Generosity truly is the best investment.

Diane von Furstenberg

2015

★ 1.2

Interview · Magazine

It is the most violent people who go for love and peace.

1980

★ 1.3

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least.

Leonardo da Vinci

Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects · 1568

★ 1.3

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

1956

★ 1.8

Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.

Richard Whately

1854

★ 1.9

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

1860

★ 1.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writing

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

United States v. Rabinowitz · 1950

★ 1.9

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

1955

★ 1.9

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The Leopard · 1957

★ 1.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal writing

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Harry A. Blackmun

Regents of University of California v. Bakke · 1978

★ 1.9

Novel · Science fiction

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1980

★ 1.9

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

1682

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play)

Eternity was in that moment.

William Congreve

1693

★ 1.9

There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 1.9

Psychological literature

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive.

1944

★ 1.9

Treatise · Economic literature

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

1950

★ 1.9

All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

U.G. Krishnamurti

1984

★ 1.9

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