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• The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
• In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice…
• Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the…
• America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
• I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
• There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking…
• Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
• Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
• God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions…
• In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention…
• It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give…
• Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What…

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