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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
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Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
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No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
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