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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
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The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
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The faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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