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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
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Personal Development
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
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Personal Development
"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
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Personal Development
"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
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Personal Development
"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."
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Personal Development
"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
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Personal Development
"Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success."
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"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
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"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
Science
"The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."
Education
"The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great."
Gratitude
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Death
"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
Books
"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."
Technology
"Have you ever come across something you couldn't explain?""Explain in what way? I could explain a ghost by saying, 'yes, that's a ghost.' I take it, that's not what you mean."
Mystery
"Somewhere on the world was the Emperor's palace, set amid one hundred square miles of natural soil, rainbowed with flowers."
Fantasy
"No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth..."
Mystery
"It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion."
Literature
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