I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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