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"As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms."
"A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover."
"None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others."
"The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends ."
"America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."
"Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma."
"The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy."
"Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now."
"Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?"
"Decisions of the kind the executive has to make are not made well by acclamation. They are made well only if based on the clash of conflicting views...The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement."
"You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again."
"It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration."
"Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree."
"Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance."
"This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does."
"He who sees cruelty and does nothing about it is himself cruel."
"The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it."
"You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm."
"It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place."
"Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe."
