Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

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A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

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Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man. ― John F. Kennedy

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How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

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Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.

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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

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There are still men who come up to me today and say, 'You were really hot in that film!' I was 14, for God's sake!

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