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"Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs."
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"I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?""Lord."I rolled my eyes.He shrugged. "It's short."

"You are a lawmaker in your own right."

"God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness."

"Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority."

"We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) do not have the time to prove that 'ours' is correct; nor do 'we' have the time to make you correct as well."

"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep."

"We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health."

"I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own."

"We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom."

"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."
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