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

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

"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."
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Personal Development

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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Personal Development

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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Personal Development

"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."
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Personal Development

"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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Personal Development

"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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Personal Development

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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Personal Development

"Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast."
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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
Sociology


"I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it."
Life


"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
Truth


"Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt."
Character


"To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better."
Art


"AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them."
Awareness


"In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it."
Art


"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."
Art


"I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path."
Self


"The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community."
Society
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