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"We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves."
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"The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all."
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"If you want to understand what is wrong with stupid people you must be one of them."
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"One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people."
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"I wish that I could know you. Not your soul, but you. I've read about you; I've seen into your heart. I've rebuilt your soul, as best I could. But that isn't the same. It isn't knowing someone, is it? That's knowing about someone."
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"We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinions because we very often differ from ourselves."
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"I know it's impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them-the bad kids and the good kids and all kids-as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for. Varying degrees of sick, varying degrees of neurotic, varying degrees of self- actualized."
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"Most people do not understand the process of achieving and fulfilling a dream."
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"True understanding lies beyond the desert."
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"Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards."
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"I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill."
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"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
Friendship
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
Communication
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
Battle
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Man
"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."
Wisdom
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
Emotion
"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
Money
"Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
Happiness
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
Awareness
"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
Art
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