Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils … - Randolph Bourne

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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

Randolph Bourne

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

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War is the Health of the State.

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If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to the herd for protection, you conform in word and deed, and you insist vehemently that everybody else shall think, speak, and act together. And you fix your adoring gaze upon the State, with a truly filial look, as upon the Father of the flock.

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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

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