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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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Think it over, think it under.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
