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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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Personal Development

"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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Personal Development

"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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Personal Development

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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Personal Development

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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Personal Development

"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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Personal Development

"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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Personal Development

"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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Personal Development

"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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Personal Development

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?"
Morality

"Internationa Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise."
Politics

"I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading."
People

"Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?"
People

"Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief."
Nature

"The moment I saw her, a part of me walked out of my body and wrapped itself around her. And there it still remains."
Love

"Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear."
Beauty

"To fuel yet another war this time against Iraq by cynically manipulating people's grief, by packaging it for TVspecials sponsored by corporations selling detergent and running shoes, is to cheapen and devalue grief, to drain itof meaning. What we are seeing now is a vulgar display of the business of grief, the commerce of grief, the pillagingof even the most private human feelings for political purpose. It is a terrible, violent thing for a State to do to itspeople."
War

"Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me."
Creativity

"In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest."
Mortality
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