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• In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
• Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
• To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
• A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted…
• Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We…
• To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt…
• In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
• Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
• The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the…
• There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
• We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had…

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