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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Our ideals are our better selves.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
— Robert Byrd
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and…
— William J. Clinton
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In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in…
— Unknown Author
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,…
— Pema Chodron
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
— Joseph Joubert
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
— George Bernard Shaw
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our…
— Pico Iyer
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We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals…
— Barack Obama
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We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our…
— Barack Obama
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Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists…
— Samuel Ullman
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