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"People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail."
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"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."
"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."
"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
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