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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man.
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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.
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In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.
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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.
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It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
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It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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