There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

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The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

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You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

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Once again the crust of civilization has worn thin, and beneath can be heard the muttering of primeval fires. Once again many accepted principles of government have been overthrown, and the world has become a laboratory where immature and feverish minds experiment with unknown forces. Once again problems cannot be comfortably limited, for science has brought the nations into an uneasy bondage to each other.

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