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It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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