We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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

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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

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The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

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