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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
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All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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