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" Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. "

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" Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. "

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" It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. "

" There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. "

" In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. "

" Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. "

" 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. "

" Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. "

" The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. "

" The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. "

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" Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. "

" People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. "

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" Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. "

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

" It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. "

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

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