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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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