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"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

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

"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."

"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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"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."

"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."

"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."
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