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"At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria." »Jerry Coleman
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"An unpopular rule is never long maintained." »Seneca
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"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves." »Eustace Budgell
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"Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it." »Germaine Greer
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"Success is achieved and maintained by those who TRY, And keep TRYING. Where there is nothing to lose by TRYING, And a great deal to gain if SUCCESSFUL, By all means, TRY. DO IT NOW" »W. Clement Stone
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths." »Bertrand Russell
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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism." »Dorothy Thompson
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"Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours." »Mark Twain
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"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours." »Mark Twain
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"If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace." »John Russell
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"Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained." »James Abram Garfield
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"No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?" »Carl L. Becker
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"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps." »H. L. Mencken
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"How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals." »Clifford Truesdell
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." »Joseph Goebbels
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