Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. - Norman Douglas

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To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

Norman Douglas

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

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To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him. . . two.

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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

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Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

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