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"Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive."

"The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players."

"My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?"

"I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself."
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"Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate."

"You can't help those who don't know they need help."
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"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."


"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."


"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."


"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."


"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."


"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."


"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."


"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
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