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"As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Smile creates love and peace, love and peace create smile."

"Every day holds infinite opportunities. Explore!"
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"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."

"Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion."

"Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality."

"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."

"Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten."

"Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone."

"The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important."

"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."

"The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests."

"Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment."
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