"No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled."

-- George Eliot

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“It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.”
“The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.”
“The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age.”

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“It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.”
“People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis ...”
“As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.”
“What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.”
“The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them”

Source : "Western Pacific Railroad Corp. v. Western Pacific Railroad Co., 345 U.S. 247". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 6, 1953.

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