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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
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Personal Development
"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
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"Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?"
Behavior
"This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten."
Loneliness
"Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?"
Labor
"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
Strength
"In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included."
Theology
"But newspapers have a duty to truth,' Van said.Lev clucked his tongue. 'They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.'Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of the other people."
Journalism
"It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life... Maybe being perfectly happy is not really the point. Maybe that is only some modern American dream of the point, while the truer measure of humanity is the distance we must travel in our lives, time and again, "twixt two extremes of passion--joy and grief," as Shakespeare put it. However much I've lost, what remains to me is that I can still speak to name the things I love. And I can look for safety in giving myself away to the world's least losable things."
Humanity
"I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor wash of summer light lay on the Catalina Mountains. The end of a depression is that clear: it's as if you have been living underwater, but never realized it until you came up for air."
Healing
"Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger."
Mortality
"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."
Fact
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