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"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

"We just had a near-life experience!"

"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
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