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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.

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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

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If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.

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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

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I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

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If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

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