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"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
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"We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law."
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"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety."
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"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."
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"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
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"Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent."
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"There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs."
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"Few great men would have got past personnel."
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"Stronger by weakness, wiser men become."
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"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes."
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"As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity."
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"At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost."
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"The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought."
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"The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding."
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"Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought."
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"My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own."
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"I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come."
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"Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension."
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"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
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