“We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.”
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Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
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