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"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
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"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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"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."
Money
"You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return."
Love
"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him."
Man
"I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match."
Love
"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."
Mistake
"The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility."
Absence
"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life."
Life
"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value."
Profit
"In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera."
Quotation
"He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid."
Character
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