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“The business of eating, which in common with a crisis or danger brings heterogeneous incompatibles comfortably together, was over and now suddenly we were all fallen apart.”
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“The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course — greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.”
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“We all take refuge in the optimism which is typical of this great creative nation. Every situation has found us unprepared.”
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“Life and death do not wait for legal action.”
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“The mind, the tongue, soon learn to dissemble, to guard a secret well, but the human face is a window.”
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“All oppression creates a state of war.”
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“The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.”
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“Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves.”