Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom not a guide by which to live.

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What is objectionable what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small porti

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total, of all those acts, will be written the history of this generation.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to surviv

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

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    I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.

    The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

    The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.

    Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

    Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

    We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.

    We are, therefore, out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. 

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