“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”
— Victor Hugo
Author: Victor Hugo
Category: nature
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“If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.”
— Thomas J. Watson
Author: Thomas J. Watson
Category: time
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“No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.”
— Benjamin Harrison
Author: Benjamin Harrison
Category: respect
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“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
— Frederick Douglass
Author: Frederick Douglass
Category: society
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