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

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

" The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. "

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

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

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

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

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

" It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. "

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

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

" We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. "

" Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. "

" Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. "

" Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. "

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

" When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. "

" Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. "

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

" The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. "

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

" Facts are counterrevolutionary. "

" Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous. "

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" A man by himself is in bad company. "

" The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. "

" The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves. "