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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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Personal Development

"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."
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Personal Development

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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Personal Development

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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Personal Development

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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Personal Development

"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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Personal Development

"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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Personal Development

"As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
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Personal Development

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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Personal Development
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"We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours."
Experience

"I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it--it, the physical act.I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine."
Philosophy

"The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic-a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall."
Psychology

"It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian."
Age

"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."
People

"But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power."
Power

"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."
Man

"No one in the world -- in the entire world -- know more -- knows Americans better or, odd as this may sound, loves them more than the American Negro. This is because he has had to watch you, outwit you, deal with you, and bear you, and sometimes even bleed and die with you, ever since we got here, that is, since both of us, black and white, got here -- and this is a wedding. Whether I like it or not, or whether you like it or not, we are bound together forever. We are part of each other."
Society

"You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity."
Society

"Whoever debases others is debasing himself."
Ethics
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