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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ”
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ”
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. ”
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. ”
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. ”
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. ”
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. ”
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ”
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. ”
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. ”