"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
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"A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy."
"Leadership does not mean domination."
"He who does not work, will not eat"
"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."
"If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget."
"Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions."
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present."
"A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process."
"It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does."
"The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring."
"Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time."
"The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing."
"A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener."
"No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished."
"What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor."
"Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest."
"The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless."
"If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If He can prevent evil but does not, then he is not good. In either case he is not God."