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"A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."
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"When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said."
"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."
"I carried out my plan because I felt The Chief had some fear of those of my race, of those uncountable forebears whose culmination lies in me. I wished to prove to him that a yellow man could save his armies."
"And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted."
"Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you."
"Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man."
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"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."
"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."
"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
"The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose."
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