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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
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Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.
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Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
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As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
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Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
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