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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...
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If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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Sensing the carelessness and one-sidedness of our prayers, we start to feel guilty about praying. Guilt leads to faint-heartedness and that in turn leads to prayerlessness.
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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 91
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