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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate, they will find you out in the life to come."
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"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."


"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."


"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."


"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."


"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere."


"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."


"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."
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