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- India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
- It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism…
- We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all…
- India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs,…
- If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any…
- If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
- Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe…
- In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
- I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith,…
- It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large…
- All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So…
- Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
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