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"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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