It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

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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.

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If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

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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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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.

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