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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
Insight

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
Being

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
Man

"The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting."
Observation

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
Politics

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good."
Friendship

"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
Heaven

"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."
Nature

"The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."
Trust

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
Reason
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