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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"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."

"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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"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

"The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives."

"Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."

"Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave."

"Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft."

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
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