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"The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."
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"I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs."
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"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
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"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."
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"I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen."
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"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
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"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."
Thought
"The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors."
Duty
"Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable."
Labor
"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."
Possibility
"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles."
Power
"The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted."
Work
"Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers."
Nature
"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own."
Knowledge
"The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve."
Man
"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."
Life
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