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A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection...  
A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his g...  
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where h...  
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the de...  
Cynicism is intellectual treason.  
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies...  
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in ...   Business
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go o...  
History is a vast early warning system.   History
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.  
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have mad...  
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolst...  
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may no...  
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no though...  
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs ...  
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.   Forgiveness
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by...  
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.  
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is ...  
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with the...  
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provide...  
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his lone...  
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direct...  
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indiffere...  
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to co...  
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to figh...  
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the ...  
The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader bring...  
We will not have peace by afterthought.  
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set ...  
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Sov...  
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.  
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun g...