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The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

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It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

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When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.

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Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions.

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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?

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What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

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He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

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He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

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A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

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Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.

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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

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A good calculator does not need artificial aids.

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.

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I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

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I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

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