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"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."
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"I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."
Freedom
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
Man
"We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists."
Trust
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
Man
"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
Leadership
"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people."
People
"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."
Man
"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
Truth
"Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail."
Philosophy
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
Government
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