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| There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. | | Generosity | |
| There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. | | Uncategorized | |
| They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. | | Uncategorized | |
| Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. | | Lies; Power | |
| Those who are involved in the development of people are doing the most important work in the world for they are completing God’s work. | | God; People | |
| Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder. | | Uncategorized | |
| Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. | | Uncategorized | |
| To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible | | Uncategorized | |
| To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are | | Uncategorized | |
| To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium | | Uncategorized | |
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| To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance | | Knowledge | |
| To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance. | | Uncategorized | |
| To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question | | Uncategorized | |
| To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. | | Uncategorized | |
| To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact way | | Uncategorized | |
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| We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. | | Uncategorized | |
