The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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The less government we have the better.
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