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"You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by."
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"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
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Personal Development
"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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Personal Development
"Dare to read."
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"The greatest treasures are books."
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Personal Development
"We do not need to teach our children how to fight. We need to teach our children the miraculousness and transientness of life."
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"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."
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"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."
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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
Music
"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
Trust
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
Truth
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
Civilization
"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
Art
"The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism."
Mistake
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
Music
"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
Business
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
Work
"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
Literature
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