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"If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe."
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"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."
Being
"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."
Life
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
Desire
"To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile."
Power
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
Imagination
"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
Man
"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
Work
"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."
Education
"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
Power
"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."
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"Consequences are unpitying."
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Personal Development
"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."
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Personal Development
"There are consequence every action, whether evil or good."
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Personal Development
"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
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Personal Development
"The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock."
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Personal Development
"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
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Personal Development
"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
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Personal Development
"What you do as president has consequences."
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Personal Development
"So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get."
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Personal Development
"Laws are subordinate to custom."
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Personal Development
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