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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."

"Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty."

"When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though."

"There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well."

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"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."

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