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"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
"I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind....It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind."
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"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."
"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."
"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."
"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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