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FRANK's Components of Creativity
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their...
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially...
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. More about this quote...
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is...
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing...
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate...
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these...
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the...
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate,...
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one...
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City. More about this quote...
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and...
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and...
The emotion of love, in spite of the romantics, is not self-sustaining; it endures only when the lovers love many...
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The...
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty...
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin...
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him...
There is nothing so bad that it cannot masquerade as moral.Source: A Preface to...
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under...
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