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Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality.

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People intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.
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Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.
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If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
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There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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No social stability without individual stability.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.
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Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
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