Aphorisms
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
It is a great thing to know our vices.
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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