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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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Personal Development
"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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Personal Development
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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Personal Development
"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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Personal Development
"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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Personal Development
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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Personal Development
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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Personal Development
"As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
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Personal Development
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
Risk
"We all lie to each other, present some sort of front."
Lie
"You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it."
Influence
"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."
Science
"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."
Animals
"In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer."
Friendship
"Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle."
Man
"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."
Death
"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."
Imagination
"I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse."
Man
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