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• I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
• There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
• Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
• Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have…
• If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations,…
• If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and…
• Peace without justice is tyranny
• Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every…
• Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority…
• You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the…
• Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge…
• Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in…

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