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War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

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A person completely wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

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No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat.

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All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

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God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

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No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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Grant us wisdom, grant us courage,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal,
Lest we miss Thy kingdom's goal.

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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.

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He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

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Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

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Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

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Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

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Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack, and subconsciously, beneath their condescension, deeply wish they had.

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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

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One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

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Self-pity gets you nowhere. But insight to see that something can be done with the second-bests and adventurous daring to try might be a handle to take hold of.

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