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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"

"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."

"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries."

"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table."

"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."

"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
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