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			 I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.  
	 I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. 
		
 
	
			 The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by read more 
	 The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind. 
		
 
	
			 To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.  
	 To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. 
		
 
	
			 Bluntness is a virtue.  
	 Bluntness is a virtue. 
		
 
	
			 I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.  
	 I've never been an intellectual but I have this look. 
		
 
	
			 If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no read more 
	 If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us. 
		
 
	
			 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.  
	 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. 
		
 
	
			 I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh.  
	 I wish they would only take me as I am. - Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh. 
		
 
	
			 When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who read more 
	 When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.