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• In violence, we forget who we are
• A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
• In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but…
• The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at…
• Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end…
• Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the…
• The happy ending is our national belief.
• Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
• Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed…
• An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
• Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
• To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause…

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