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“Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.”
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“... the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.”
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“Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.”
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“A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives ... ”
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“Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.”
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“For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.”
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“And a couple of hospital nurses in the house who were about as sympathetic as a brace of grandfather clocks.”
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“Oh, how often I wished that Thomas A. Watson had laid a restraining hand on A.G. Bell's arm and had said to him, 'Let's not and say we did.'”