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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your

If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. – Lord Chesterfield

Other quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. – Lord Chesterfield

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Learning
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Lord Chesterfield
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. – Lord Chesterfield

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Risk
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Lord Chesterfield
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Fear
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. – James Joyce

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Fear

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. – John Boyd Orr

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Fear

I cant understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God thats not religion, thats not helping humanity, thats organizing an army to defeat somebody. – Mojo Nixon

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Fear

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? – Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Fear

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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. – Albert Camus

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Man was natures mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. – Eric Hoffer

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Nature

Heresies are experiments in mans unsatisfied search for truth. – H. G. Wells

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Truth

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. – Thomas Sowell

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