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" A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. "

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" We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. "

" Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. "

" 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. "

" An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. "

" A man by himself is in bad company. "

" Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. "

" It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression. "

" To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. "

" Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. "

" Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. "

" When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. "

" It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. "

" There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. "

" Facts are counterrevolutionary. "

" There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. "

" There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. "

" With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. "

" You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy. "

" Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. "

" Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. "

" Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. "

" To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. "

" It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. "

" To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. "

" It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. "

" It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. "

" It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. "

" What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? "

" It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. "