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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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"All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged."


"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."


"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."


"Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer."


"A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government."


"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort."


"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."
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