"When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."
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"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
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"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
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"The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now."
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"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
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"Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain."
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"The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
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"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
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"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."
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"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
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"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."
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"Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil."
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"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know."
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"Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'"
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"The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life."
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"Never be bored, and you will never be boring."
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"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
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"Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it."
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"All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert."
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"a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people."
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