It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end but for me, the beginning of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.
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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
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Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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