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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law of eternal.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
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No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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No man can help another without helping himself.
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No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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