A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

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Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

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if you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

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The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

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I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me

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