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"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."
Creativity
"Will and intellect are one and the same thing."
Intellectual
"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
Sin
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
Peace
"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
Man
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past."
Past
"Desire is the essence of a man."
Desire
"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
Man
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
Man
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
Science
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