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"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."
"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive."
"When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society."
"The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message."
"Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery."
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile."
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