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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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"Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001."

"When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows."

"You don't have to leave the world to be holy and grow closer to the Holy One."
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"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."

"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."

"Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders."

"We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself."

"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."

"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

"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."
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