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In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief. - [Intolerance] It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - [Wisdom] Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings. - [Authority] One has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. - [Honor] Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men. - [Purpose] The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. - in the "New York Harold Tribune" [Leadership] The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. - [Science] The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price. - [Writers] Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - [Thinking] While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important. - [Freedom]
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