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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
- Nov 07, 2020
When in doubt, do it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
- Certainty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020