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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000) -
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 255. -
One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.
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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) -
Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
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Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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