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"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
"The value of time is immeasurable."
"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
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"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."
"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
"He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."
"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."
"We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists."
"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."
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