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" The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. "

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Doing The Right Thing

" Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "

" Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. "

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" Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. "

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" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

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" It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. "

" Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! "

" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "

" No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. "

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" Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought. "

" Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. "

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" Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. "

" There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. "