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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
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The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
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The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
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The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
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The greatest mistake is the trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
Source: Biographical Studies (1881) -
The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
Source: Surprised by Joy (1955) -
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
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