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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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"One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away)."
"We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later."
"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."
"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"
"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."
"A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention."
"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."
"Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward."
"However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be."
"If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs."
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"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."
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"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."
"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."
"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."
"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed."
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."
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