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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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Fear
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Joseph Conrad
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
power
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Joseph Conrad
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It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots. – Virgil Goode

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legal

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice. – Franklin P. Jones

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legal

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state. – Mark Consuelos

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legal

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. – Potter Stewart

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legal

Random Quotes

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. – Rebecca West, “There is No Conversation,” 1934

Category:
Speaking

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. – Clare Boothe Luce

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Election Day

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. – F. H. Bradley

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Knowledge

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man

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Goals