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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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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."

"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."

"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."

"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."

"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."

"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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