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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"A man in the house is worth two in the street."
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"In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men."
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"Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together."
Sin
"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"
Criticism
"When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains."
Heart
"But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it."
Writing
"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
Knowledge
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me."
Family
"Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation."
Conversation
"Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason."
Passion
"Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not."
Wisdom
"An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand."
Actor
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