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"Growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination."
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"Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?"

"Always be true to yourself, you matter the most."

"Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have."

"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."
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"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?"

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."

"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge."

"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries."

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."

"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning."

"A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may not balance by an equal ugliness. The warthog and the hyena, the tapeworm and the stinkhorn, are equally God's creations. Nothing you have said points to anything but a cold indifference towards us of this order in which we live. Beauty happens; it is not given. Pain, suffering, happiness; there is no heed. Only in the heart of man burns the fire of righteousness."
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