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Vote:   | A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. |
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Vote: | A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences. |
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Vote: | A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. |
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Vote: | A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. |
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Vote: | Cynicism is intellectual treason. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. |
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Vote: | Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. |
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Vote: | History is a vast early warning system. |
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Vote: | Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. |
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Vote: | If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. |
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Vote: | If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it. |
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Vote: | It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. |
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Vote: | Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. |
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Vote: | Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. |
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Vote: | Life is an adventure in forgiveness. |
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Vote: | Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. |
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Vote: | My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. |
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Vote: | Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. |
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Vote: | People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. |
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Vote: | The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. |
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Vote: | The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. |
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Vote: | The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. |
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Vote: | The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. |
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Vote: | The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. |
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Vote: | The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. |
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Vote: | The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force. |
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Vote: | The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. |
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Vote: | The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully. |
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Vote: | We will not have peace by afterthought. |
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Vote: | What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. |
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Vote: | Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? |
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Vote: | Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? |
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Vote: | Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. |
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Vote: | Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. |