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 There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.  You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build. Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life. The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so. If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in. Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes. Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. Say it with flowers. Whenever I'm with my [teenager], I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. - Amy Tan Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered. What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it, dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it! Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth. When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it. The rich know not who is his friend. Talking is easy, action difficult. Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. There was never a saint with red hair. 
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