"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."

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"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."

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"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."

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"Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates."

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"I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive."

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"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."

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""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

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"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves."

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"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

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"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."

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"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

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"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly."

John Abizaid, American Soldier

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"Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time."

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"There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet

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"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer

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"In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite."

Alvin Adams, American Businessman

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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."

Freda Adler, American Educator

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"Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience."

Felix Adler, German Educator

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"It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history."

Renata Adler, Italian Journalist

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