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"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."
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Personal Development
"People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period."
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Personal Development
"The greatest treasures are books."
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Personal Development
"I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t."
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Personal Development
"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."
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Personal Development
"Always we learn things and then we forget them."
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Personal Development
"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
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Personal Development
"If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed."
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Personal Development
"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."
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Personal Development
"One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless."
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"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts."
Humanity
"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
Literature
"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."
Language
"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."
Art
"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
Art
"All great art is born of the metropolis."
Art
"It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week."
Art
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
Art
"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
Business
"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
War
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