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"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."
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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'"
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"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."


"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."


"He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass."


"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men."


"Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known."


"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten"."
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