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" Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. "
Bottom
Action
Swinging
" A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. "
Only
Minority
Free
" A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time. "
Time
Good
Good Luck
" A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. "
Poignant
Most
Grievance
" A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. "
Vigor
System
Spring
" A man by himself is in bad company. "
Company
Himself
Man
" A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. "
Things
Without
Nation
" An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. "
Anything
Head
Empty
" Animals often strike us as passionate machines. "
Animals
Us
Passionate
" Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. "
Love
Child
Who
" Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. "
Degree
Some
Leadership
" Children are the keys of paradise. "
Family
Paradise
Children
" Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. "
Compassion
Good And Evil
Good
" Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. "
Compassion
Where
Soul
" Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. "
Craving
Reckless
Mother
" Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. "
Ability
Nature
Creativity
" Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. "
Too Much
Soul
Disappointment
" Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. "
Self-Sacrifice
Dissipation
Form
" Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. "
Intense
Desire
Different
" Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. "
New
Crisis
Adjustment
" Facts are counterrevolutionary. "
Facts
" Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. "
Lost
Cause
Faith
" Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. "
Far
Want
More
" I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. "
Prejudices
Hang
Onto
" In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. "
Earth
Change
World
" It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. "
Nobody
Immigrants
Hate
" It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. "
Sign
Death
Living
" It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. "
Promise
Power
Evil
" It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. "
To Love
Neighbor
Love
" It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. "
Become
Judge
Own
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