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"My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!"

"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

"Once the egoism has gone (stopped), all the worldly 'matter' of the body-complex [pudgal] are renounced! Where there is egoism, there is my-ness and where there is my-ness, there is a hidden egoism. When 'Knowledge of the Self' is attained, egoism and my-ness goes away. Only the dramatic (discharge) 'egoism' and 'my-ness' will remain."
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"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."


"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness."


"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."


"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured."


"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."


"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."


"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
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