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"I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last."
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"The greatest treasures are books."
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"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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"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
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"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."
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"The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing "alive and kicking" dreams."
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"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."
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"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Tell the others right away, 'No, I don't want to watch TV! I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!"
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"It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in orderto have prosperity."
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"Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on."
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"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."
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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."
Wisdom
"It's too late to be studying Hebrew, it's more important to understand even the slang of today."
Education
"It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety."
Simplicity
"The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable."
Society
"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest."
Freedom
"Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the periodical press in this country. And as they live and rule only by their servility, and appealing to the worst, and not the better nature of man, the people who read them are in the condition of the dog that returns to his vomit."
Society
"For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have."
Governance
"A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town."
Nature
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
Wisdom
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
Time
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