Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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To understand is not only to pardon but in the end to love.
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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
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Whether we wish it our not we are involved in the world's problems, and all the winds of heaven blow through our land.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
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