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"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."

"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."

"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."

"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."

"He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."

"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."

"We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists."

"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."

"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."
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