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Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

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So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

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Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

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Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

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It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.

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They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.

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Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally.

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When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

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My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

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I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

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I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

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