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"Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening."
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"When you find out the field you were gifted, what you were created for, you will not have to work hard and sweat it out."

"Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening."
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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."


"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."


"From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment."


"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction."


"Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?"


"History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant."
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