Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Subject:
Life
Religious
Spiritual
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The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
Subject:
America
Judgment
Logic
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Subject:
Nature
Laws
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Subject:
Love & Romance
Curiosity
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Subject:
Wealth
Poverty
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
Subject:
Vices
Virtue
Human Nature
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"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
Subject:
Hate
Pessimism
Work: An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
Subject:
Morality
Cruel
Human Nature
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Subject:
Parents
Family
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Subject:
Freedom
Responsibility
Work: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
Subject:
Silence
Virtue
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If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
Subject:
Children
Parents
Boredom
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Subject:
Character
Human Nature
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We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Subject:
Community
Loneliness
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
Subject:
Assumptions
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Subject:
Children
Parents
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Subject:
Stupidity
Duty
Shame
Work: Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
Subject:
Education
Fool
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Subject:
Life
Death
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All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
Subject:
Freedom
Progress
Censorship
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