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The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task read more
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous read more
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper read more
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.