"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.“

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"The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work."

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"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."

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"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."

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"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

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"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."

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"Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."

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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."

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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."

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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."

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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."

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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."

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