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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."

"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing."
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