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The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives freshwater, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the water out. It receives beautiful water from the rivers, and the water goes dank. I mean, it just goes bad. And that's why it is the Dead Sea. It receives and does not give. In the end, generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.

Desmond Tutu

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Tutu, Desmond and Tenzin Gyatso and Dalai Lama XIV. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World. Cornerstone Publishers, 2016.

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Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been "Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself," while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1913, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Seventh Annual Message." Joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. 3 Dec. 1907, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead, it can only serve; and it is not fastidious in its choice of a leader.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." NBC Broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal. 11 Apr. 1943.

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Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library, 2015, ch. 51.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Address to the Knights of Columbus. 12 Oct. 1915, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA.

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I stand for the square deal, But when I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The New Nationalism." 31 Aug. 1910, Osawatomie, KS, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The New Nationalism." Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Vintage, 2014.

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Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here!

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 5.

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Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden.

Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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We have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent.

Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1913, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Wole Soyinka

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Soyinka, Wole. "A Letter to Compatriots." The Man Died: Prison Notes. Harper & Row/Rex Collings Limited, 1972.

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The grand aim of all science [is] to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in The Universe and Dr. Eistein. Written by Lincoln Barnett. Sloane, 1950. Originally printed in Harpers, 1948.

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A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 6.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 6.

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It created in this country what had never existed before-a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. Memorial Day address. 31 May 1915, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA, USA.

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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Elias Canetti

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Canetti, Elias. Masse und Macht [Mass and Power]. Claassen-Verlag, 1960.

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Very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own.

Milton Friedman

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The Open Mind. Interview with Milton Friedman. Hosted by Richard Heffner. The Open Mind Legacy Project. National Educational Telecommunications Association, PBS, 7 Dec. 1975, www.YouTube.com/watch?v=k2Kg2SvsI8Q

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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.