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Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.

Paradox

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting.

Education Inspiration

As I always say, the "oldest hatred" didn't get that way without an ability to adapt.

Antisemitism

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

Creativity

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Truth

The passion for money is never fickle.

Money

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

Humor

How goodness heightens beauty!

Beauty

Morality is contraband in war.

War

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

Religion

The barberry and currant must escape
Though her small clusters imitate the grape.

Fruit

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Death Psychology

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

Change

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Art

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

History

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Knowledge

What's saved affords
No indication of what's lost.

Loss

I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.

Equality

The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.

Cheerfulness

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart
One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

Heroes