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"To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia."
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"I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing."

"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."

"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."

"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."

"The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses."

"Be yourself, that is all there is."

"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."

"Are you like, a crazy person?I'm quite sure they will say so."
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"You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic."


"Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant."


"The Lord God, the creator of Judaism and the God of Judaism and Christianity, empowered our minds and gave us the ability to question."


"In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny."


"Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work."


"Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society."


"We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord."
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