Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of … - Wendell Phillips

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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

Wendell Phillips

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

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Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

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Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.

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