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You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.


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The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
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Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
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Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.
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The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.
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As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
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It's hard to determine where lies culpability.


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The locale does not determine the dress code; the host does.


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Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.


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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.


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Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.


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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.


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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.


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Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.
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Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you.


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I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.


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