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"If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."
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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

"If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today."
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"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself."

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances."

"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."

"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."

"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."
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