The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
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The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
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The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
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