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We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Bergen Evans

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
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Following Going Leader Marshal Most
Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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Glitter Writing
We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
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May Past Through
A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement.
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Interested Labor Leader Much Newspaper Publisher
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
BERGEN EVANS

Day Fear Freedom Memorial
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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Given Selection Wisdom
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
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Men Statement Trust Wisdom
An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
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Bullied Honorable Man
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
BERGEN EVANS

Cynicism Madness Wisdom
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
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Indispensable Liars Lying
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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Abhorrence Vices Virtue
For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
BERGEN EVANS

Following Leader Way
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
BERGEN EVANS

Humanity Men Religion
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
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Able Leadership Motivated
Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
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Civilized Coffee Spoon
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
BERGEN EVANS

Freedom Selection Wisdom

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