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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpl

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

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Equality
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

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Humor
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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Obscurity

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. – Mae West

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Obscurity

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. – George Allen

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Obscurity brings safety. – Aesop

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. – John F. Kennedy

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On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was the flow
Of Iser, rolling rapidly. – Thomas Campbell

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Jogging is for those who don’t have the guts to skip. – Terri Guillemets

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