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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.

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When angry, count to a hundred.

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In truth I care little about any party's politicsthe man behind it is the important thing.

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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

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...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

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I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

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I am not an American. I am the American.

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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

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We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.

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I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

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What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

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