"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on media
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."

Unknown, Source on teacher
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"Teaching is the greatest act of optimism."

Wilcox, Colleen on teacher
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"The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on propaganda
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

Buffett, Warren on risk
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