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We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
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We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.
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We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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We do not say that a man to be a critic must necessarily be a poet: but to be a good critic, he ought not to be a bad poet.
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We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
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We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
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We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
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