We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it.


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The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by th...
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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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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a...
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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possib...
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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling o...
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of m...
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equippe...
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitaria...
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
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The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by d...
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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were,...
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Our great weariness comes from work not done.
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opi...
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There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
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It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.
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To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the ...
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The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in th...
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that ...
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You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by making him one with rocks, vegetation, ...
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Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And w...
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragemen...
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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has hap...
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor.
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However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we r...
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One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ...
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
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