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"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."
"You can have it all. Just not all at once."
"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
"To live long it is necessary to live slowly."
"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."
"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
"This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you."
"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."
"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."
"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."
"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."
"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
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