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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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... life falls into place only with God.

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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

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We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

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Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

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The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

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The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

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In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

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Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

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There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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If the world does not please you, you can change it.

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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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