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"Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past."
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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."
"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."
"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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"The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists."
"The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair."
"The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word."
"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."
"We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization."
"It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved."
"It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one."
"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence."
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