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"Facts are counterrevolutionary."
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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."

"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

"It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny."

"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."

"It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."

"It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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