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"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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Personal Development

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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Personal Development

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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Personal Development

"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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Personal Development

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time."
Time

"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee."
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"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."
Business

"I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine."
Leadership

"It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world."
Peace

"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."
Experience

"He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle."
Creativity

"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."
Power

"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
Fiction

"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."
Sympathy
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