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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; read more
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to read more
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state read more
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
