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"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."

"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."

"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."

"The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture."

"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."

"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
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