“ Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present. ”
- William Lloyd Garrison- Copy
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“ The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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