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“The words we use are symbolic of the values we hold.”
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“Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.”
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“Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.”
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“The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.”
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“Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.”
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“She was looking only for comfort now, and she was completely resigned to the knowledge that this is the beginning of old age.”
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“Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!”
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“... the certain truth, that as warm a heart, as noble a nature, and as bright an intellect may be found under a yellow, a brown, or a black skin as under a white one.”