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If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill

Speech is civilization itself.

- Thomas Mann | Conversation Quotes

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

- Thomas Mann | Habit and Tradition Quotes

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

- Thomas Mann | Death and Dying Quotes

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

- Thomas Mann | Ideas Quotes

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

- Thomas Mann | Love Quotes

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body; therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.

- Thomas Mann | Medicine and Sickness Quotes

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

- Thomas Mann | Opinion Quotes

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

- Thomas Mann | Reason Quotes

What the collective age wants, allows and approves, is the perpetual holiday from the self.

- Thomas Mann | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

- Thomas Mann | Time Quotes

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

- Thomas Mann | Words and Language Quotes

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

- Thomas Mann | Self-Knowledge Quotes

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

- Thomas Mann | Difficult Days Quotes

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

- Thomas Mann | Positive Quotes

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

- Thomas Mann | Life Quotes

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

- Thomas Mann | Opinion Quotes