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"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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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."

"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."

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

"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."

"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."

"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."

"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak."

"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
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