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"The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men."
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"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed."
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"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."
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"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."
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