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"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."
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"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
"It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time."
"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
"A man learns with age, if he is lucky."
"When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives."
"But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."
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"If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians."
"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."
"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."
"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
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