The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.Andre Malraux
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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