"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it."
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"So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows."
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"People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence."
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"God made (human beings) because he loves stories."
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"I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs."
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"The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature."
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"The Bible is the fountain of truth."
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"And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either."
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"To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."
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"It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop."
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"The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation."
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand."
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"Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors."
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"Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger."
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"If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours."
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"I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity)."
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"One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them."
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