Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

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It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

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