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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave the unsaid the wrong thing thing at the tempting moment.
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Dorothy Nevill
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
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Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
It is the function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new forms-the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
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William Plomer
The unfortunate thing about this word is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
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Somerset Maugham
Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
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William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
An adult who ceases after youth to unlearn and relearn his facts and to reconsider his opinions... is a menace to a democratic community.
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Edward Thorndike
The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of the appeal.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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