In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.

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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.- Alexis de Tocqueville

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Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. - Steven Wright

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The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life.

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My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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