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«Man wants but little drink below, / But wants that little strong.»
«You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.»
«Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God,»
«The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.»
«We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.»
«Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.»
«Beware how you take away hope from another human being.»
«Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.»
«One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.»
«Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.»
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