All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.Henry Ellis
The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
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A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
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Man lives by imagination.
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
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