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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems...
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a...
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and...
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The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd....
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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22,...
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is...
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that...
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Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction....
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Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement...