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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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