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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day…
— Felix Adler
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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This man, although he may not actually have committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the…
— Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over…
— Kevin Carson
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous…
— Thomas Sowell
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Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
— Bill Drayton
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If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the…
— Noam Chomsky
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A fragile democracy like Uganda requires political leaders who are committed to embracing the diversity in the country regardless of ethnic, political…
— Obita Denis
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