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“...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.”
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“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
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[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
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“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.”
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“Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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