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"Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it."
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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
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"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
Truth


"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
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"But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up."
Curiosity


"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
Man


"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
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"The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones."
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"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation."
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"Hope is a passion for the possible."
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"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
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