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"Where would the world be if we took every man to book? There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best- in a way that cost them nothing."
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"Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent."

"People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses."

"Take responsibility for your life and count solely on yourself."

"You should only expect something from your efforts."

"God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven."

"So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation."

"I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met."

"Joblessness gives you life ownership."

"Christians don't have the moral right to be indifferent."
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"For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress - to the future."

"The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off."

"When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind."

"And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantment of visions that crowd in on each other, just how fragile a handhold, how tenuous a boundary separates us from darkness - we are little flames, inadequately sheltered by thin walls from the tempest of dissolution and insensibility in which we flicker and are often all but extinguished. Then the muted sounds of battle surrounds us, and we creep into ourselves and stare wide-eyed into the night."

"We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us."

"And be very careful at the front, Paul.Ah, Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you. What poor wretches we are!"

"Below there are cyclists, lorries, men; it is a grey street and a grey subway;-it affects me as though it were my mother."

"The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy."

"To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting."
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