Quote by Joseph Conrad
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right arg

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

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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. – Joseph Conrad

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Weather
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad

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Hope
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad

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Emotions
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. – John Maynard Keynes

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Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. – Bertrand Russell

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power

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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A mans true state of power and riches is to be in himself. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. – Author unknown

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike. – Eric Bently

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