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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
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The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
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Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
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Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
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