“ The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. ”
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“ You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ”
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“ It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. ”
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“ You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ”
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“ We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. ”
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“ We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us. ”
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“ There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. ”
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“ It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. ”
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“ There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. ”
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“ It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. ”
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“ The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. ”
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“ The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape. ”
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“ A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ”
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“ The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ”
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“ The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. ”
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“ In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ”
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“ To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. ”
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“ There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother’s keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. ”
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“ Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. ”
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“ When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. ”
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“ The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. ”
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“ We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. ”
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“ Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. ”
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