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"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."
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"Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving."
"I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill."
"We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
"If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors."
"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
"Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone."
"Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life."
"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."
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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
"When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man."
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since at least half of the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without regretting the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom."
"Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning."
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