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- We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
- American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of…
- When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears,…
- But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts…
- It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.
- The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust…
- We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
- If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most admires - for…
- Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same…
- A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered…
- Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own…
- Parents want two opposite things at once: they want their children to excel, and they want their children to be docile. But the two don't…
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