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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"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."

"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."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."

"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."

"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"

"As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary."

"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."
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