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To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
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In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
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A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
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