"Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob."
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"The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back."
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"I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist."
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"The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw."
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"Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility."
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"A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind."
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"The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."
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"Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man."
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"One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations."
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"In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history."
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"Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment."
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"Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems."
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"Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied."
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"The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril."
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"Journalism is the entertainment business."
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"Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice."
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"Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem."
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"Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name."
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"Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history."
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"To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe."
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