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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Vanity Conscience Cowardice Expediency
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Doing End Ghosts Having
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Conscientious Dangerous Ignorance More
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

After Book Bookstore Content
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Battlefield Casualties Down Great
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Attention Difficult Down Net
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The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Futility Hence Invites Involves
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Guided Men Misguided Missiles
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The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

First Good Happen Help
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Academic Being Certain Colleagues
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Challenge Comfort Controversy Convenience
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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Bends Elbow Justice Moral
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Easy Myth People Publishers
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Important Keep Law Love
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

Born Committed Crimes Deplorable
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Churches European Every Exciting
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Cast Everything See Shadow
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

About Challenging Experience More
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Civilization Death Installment Nation
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

Internet People Television Watch
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
After Book I Think Judged
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

Because Invent Lies Possible
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Brotherhood Day Dream Former
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A riot is the language of the unheard.

Language Riot Unheard
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

White Death Free Price
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Believe Defeated Evil Final
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Acceptance Art Done Favor
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Control Gives Knowledge Man
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.

America Australia Because Captain
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Accepts Against Evil Helps
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Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Events Political Today TV
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

Age Beginning Enlightenment Modern
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The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Centuries Each English French
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Civil Civil War Needed Properly
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
Times Truth
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Dew Flash Human Life
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Church End Falling Go
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Down Find Full Life
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Nobody Santa Shoots
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Between China Defects Even
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Books Just Oldest Only
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Achievements Compulsive Continuously Ego
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Defend Intervene Liberty Press
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

Aphorism Define Difficult More
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Art Conclusions Drawing Insufficient
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I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I Think Myself Novels Professor
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Bible May Nothing Truth
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Alert Being Coffee Cup
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