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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
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The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
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The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
Source: Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis -
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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The real way of living is to answer to one's wants.
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Source: Works (1913) IV, 315 -
The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
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