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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.