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"There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation."
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"Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living."

"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

"What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them."

"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."


"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."


"We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated."


"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."


"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."


"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."


"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."
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