Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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