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“Work with integrity and succeed with integrity”
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“Honor is better than honors.”
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“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
Source : "Faith in Liberalism". Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, August 28, 1952.
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“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all.”
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“In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.”
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“While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.”
Source : "The Soviet Colossus : History and Aftermath" by Michael Kort, (p. 172), 2001.
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“Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
Source : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)
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“But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.”
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“The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.”
