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Randolph Bourne Quotes


A progressive writer and "leftist intellectual" born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University.
Randolph Silliman Bourne (May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and "leftist intellectual" born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. Bourne is best known for his essays, especially his unfinished work "The State," discovered after his death.

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We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

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Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

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Few people even scratch the surface much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

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Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

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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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We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

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A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.