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"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

"One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself."

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

"We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping."

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."
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"I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live."

"Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."

"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."

"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."

"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."
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