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"It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job, it takes a wise man to make it without working."
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"Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities " but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world."
Society
"I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional."
Ethics
"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."
War
"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."
Politics
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
Wisdom
"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed."
Philosophy
"They said it was only a ground shark, but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other."
Adventure
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Business
"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."
Destiny
"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
Wisdom
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