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"People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty."

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"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

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"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."

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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

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"When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar."

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"If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green. If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won t."

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"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it."

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"The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since."

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"I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail."

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"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once."

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