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• All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
• The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.
• What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to…
• The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
• All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.
• Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.
• Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is…
• Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.
• One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal…
• Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes…
• For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
• A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply…

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