"Man makes holy what he believes."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why."

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"Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things."

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"He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign."

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"To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed."

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"God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul."

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