A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
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I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
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Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.
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Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
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