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"Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us."
Life

"Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later."
Priority

"Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down."
Enthusiasm

"The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin."
Nature

"My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities."
Parenting

"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."
Peace

"Does politics have to be injected into everything?"
Politics

"Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being."
Being

"Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"
Health

"The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it."
Peace
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