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- Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one…
- We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is…
- What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had…
- Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say…
- What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others.…
- The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
- There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
- Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator,…
- The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or…
- There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
- The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent
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