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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.


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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.



Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.



The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.



I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.



I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.



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

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



We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.



Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.



Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.



When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.





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The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.



Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.




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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.



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