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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."

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"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."

"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!"

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."

"Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time.""

"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."

"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."