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Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
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Dying is a part of living, but only a very small part.
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Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
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Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
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History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.
The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Three, The End of Government?, p. 54
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