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"Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?"
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"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."

"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"

"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."

"When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions."

"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."

"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."

"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."

"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."
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"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."

"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over."
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