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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
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You must have eyes of science to see in the seed its nodes...
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
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Moon, planet, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.
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Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.
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The hero sees that the event is ancillary: it must follow him.
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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
May 25, 1803
Died:
April 27, 1882
(aged 78)
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