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• A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
• The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for…
• Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one…
• The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it…
• Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
• We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
• It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and…
• As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil,…
• What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.
• Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but…
• We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours…
• What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of…

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