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If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
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As quoted in That Summer in Paris (1963) by Morley Callaghan

 

Ernest Hemingway

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The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

 

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We are not wrong, we are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong. If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning. And we are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until "justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

 

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I don't have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don't think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.

 

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