"Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!"
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"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."
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"We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment."
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"All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost."
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"The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned."
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"However un-Christian this may sound, I am not even predisposed against myself."
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"Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren."
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"No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first."
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"Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him."
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"Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate."
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"It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor."
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"Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!"
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"An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist."
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"To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead."
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"they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth"
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"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun."
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"They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
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"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves"
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"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth."
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"Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it."
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