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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a…
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Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do…
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