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Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
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Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
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My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.
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This trial comes at a moment when man's power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages.
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Let it be impressed upon all hearts that, beautiful as our fabric is, no earthly power or wisdom could ever reunite its broken fragments.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship
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Life is a navigation; we are perpetually wallowing and dashing one against another; sometimes we suffer shipwreck, but we are always in danger and in expectation of it.
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there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
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Marriage is terrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.
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Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate apprehensions and desires.
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Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.
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If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.