There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Eric Hoffer
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
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