161"In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any woman or man as a hero. The reputation of anyone who is subjected to media scrutiny will eventually be diminished."
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162"One often hears about the need for individuals to take responsibility for their own lives. However, the conditions in which people find themselves have been largely established long before people become aware of them. Thus, the concept of personal responsibility is much more complicated and unrealistic than is often assumed."
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163"Most people live, whether physically or morally, in a very restricted circle. They make use of a very limited portion of the resources available to them until they face a great problem or crisis."
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164"Sometimes imagination is a more valuable asset than experience. People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible and thus can approach a task without constraints of established habits and attitudes."
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165"In any given field, the leading voices come from people who are motivated not by conviction but by the desire to present opinions and ideas that differ from those held by the majority."
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166"Over the past century, the most significant contribution of technology has been to make people's lives more comfortable."
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167"It is impossible for an effective political leader to tell the truth all the time. Complete honesty is not a useful virtue for a politician."
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168"Critical judgment of work in any given field has little value unless it comes from someone who is an expert in that field."
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169"Those who treat politics and morality as though they were separate realms fail to understand either the one or the other."
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170"The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people."
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171"People who pursue their own intellectual interests for purely personal reasons are more likely to benefit the rest of the world than are people who try to act for the public good."
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172"Important truths begin as outrageous, or at least uncomfortable, attacks upon the accepted wisdom of the time."
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173"Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways."
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174"Laws should not be rigid or fixed. Instead, they should be flexible enough to take account of various circumstances, times, and places."
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