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Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what...
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country’s greatest tragedy, but...
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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true...
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No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory...
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us...
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong...
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He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest...