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"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."
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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."
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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
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"He who hates vice hates men."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man."
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"What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me up there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made simply to go about being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him and go he must."
Philosophy
"Human history is in essence a history of ideas."
Knowledge
"But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves."
Psychology
"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
Failure
"There's truths you have to grow into."
Wisdom
"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."
Politics
"They despite and hate the government more and more, but they don't know how to set about changing it. The country is dying for some sort of lead, and so far all it is getting is a crowd of fresh professional leaders. Who never get anywhere. Who do not seem to be aiming anywhere. We are living in a world of jaded politics. Poverty increases, prices rise, unemployment spreads, mines, factories stagnate, and nothing is done."
Governance
"Life is two things. Life is morality " life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds " adventure."
Life
"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
Philosophy
"I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then."
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