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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what… — Albert Camus
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually… — Conrad Black
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. — Sidney Lumet
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. — Aneurin Bevan
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the… — Georges Bataille
You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears? — Michel Serres
I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring… — Igor Stravinsky
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear… — David Lloyd George
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his… — Blake Bailey

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