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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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Personal Development
"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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Personal Development
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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Personal Development
"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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Personal Development
"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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Personal Development
"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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Personal Development
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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Personal Development
"As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally."
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Personal Development
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty."
Power
"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
Earth
"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent."
Love
"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
Independence
"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
Virtue
"Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake."
Life
"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."
Man
"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
Conscience
"The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists."
Food
"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
Genius
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