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Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude.
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If I associate not with these people,-- with mankind,-- with whom shall I associate?
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The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer
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An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.
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Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.
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This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.