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"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces."
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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

"All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."

"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."

"We're all as susceptible to the lure of power."

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"If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things."

"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

"There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be."

"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
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