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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. "

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" Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. "

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

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

" Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. "

" There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. "

" We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams. "

" When people are bored it is primarily with themselves. "

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

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

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

" Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous. "

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" The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. "

" The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. "

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

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

" We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. "

" Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith. "

" We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. "

" A man by himself is in bad company. "

" 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. "

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

" We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. "

" Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. "

" Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. "

" One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. "