“There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.”
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.