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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
The human is the only guilty animal.
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.