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You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and… — Seymour Hersh
The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man… — John Dewey
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. — Henry George
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil. — Sydney J. Harris
Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same — Paul Simon
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing… — Henri Frederic Amiel
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right,… — Thomas Reid
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong… — Thomas Jefferson
The less men think, the more they talk. — Baron de Montesquieu
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between… — Samuel Johnson
There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit… — Martin Buber
Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birth-less and… — Edwin Arnold
Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help… — Anthony of Sourozh
It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God… — Meister Eckhart
Physically walking where Jesus walked is less important than walking as He walked. — Thomas S. Monson
Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas — Carl Jung
The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and… — Carlos Castaneda
Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of… — George Harrison
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. — Carl Jung

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