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	A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
	Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
	Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
	America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.
	Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
	If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.
	In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists.
	It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
	It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
	It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

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