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"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"

"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."

"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."

"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"

"Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting."
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