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“Every war, every plague is God’s judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the plagues is God’s instrument. Human action is God’s will, not blind indifference in the face of suffering.”

War God Suffering Indifference Plague God S Will Suffering Of Humanity Human Action Judgment Of God Instrument Of Peace

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“Too much reason limits man to the physical world and blinds his imagination to the greater things that may be. But too much faith blinds him from curing the human suffering in this world. Men with too much faith accept suffering; they expect it and even seek it out.”

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“This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the name of community, in the name of personal gain, that these individuals are best able to make for themselves.”

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“The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin…. [G]ood men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction.”

Greatness Goodness Destruction Pursuit Destroy Build Ruin Controlling Others

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“The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.”

Fear Silence Knowledge Tyranny Freedom Of Speech Manipulate Tyrant Advocate Controlling Others

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“Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny’s rise; once one man learns of another’s captivity, he will act to free him. It is the best and most certain part of man’s nature.”

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“The smallest act of compassion can save a soul, perhaps your own.”

Soul Compassion

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“One of mankind’s greatest sins is inaction in the face of injustice.”

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“Catastrophe alone sparks man’s salvation. I don’t mean in the religious sense, although I guess it is appropriate there, too, because believers agree that salvation comes only after death. It is part of the human near-tragedy that we learn more from loss than from gain. Gain binds us until we stumble and fall into that black pit then we find the spirit of understanding and truth. And if we fall far enough and still persist, we find our salvation.”

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“There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.”

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“Every decision is easy once you make it. The important thing is to think carefully, make your decision, and then work to make your choice the right one. That is the secret to a happy life. There are very few wrong decisions in life, but very few people who are willing to make the effort it takes to make their decisions the right ones.”

Choices Effort Decisions Right Decision Secret To Happiness Wrong Decisions

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“Man must be free or he will not survive.”

Humanity Freedom Mankind Survival Man

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“It was no accident that one of the first things God asked of Adam was for him to name the animals he saw around him. Why do you suppose God asked man to do that? Because once you have a name, you have the beginning of understanding, and once you have understanding, you lose fear. God didn’t want man to be fearful. He wanted man to be brave.”

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“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.”

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“Take liberties you shouldn’t and you’ll find your liberties are taken from you.”

Self Restraint Liberties

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“We are all terminally mortal, but looking after each other will help us to become part of the immortal divine.”

Immortal Terminally Ill Looking After Each Other

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“Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.”

Disaster Tyranny Benevolence Thinking For Yourself Manmade

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“Some people are anchored to this world by their feet, others by their fears.”

People Feet This World Fears Anchored

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“She who follows another’s course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.”

Following Mistakes Self Determination Remorse

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