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"I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome--but I'd still be stupid. So, in the long run, I've won out."
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"We must design how we wish to be perceived, and then we must work even harder to continuously recreate and re-evaluate that perception."
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Personal Development

"You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever."
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"Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."
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"Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won't make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!"
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"We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present."
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"Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention."
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"When we run away from something. We're usually running away from ourselves."
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"The real battle is within yourself."
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"Search yourself with other persons and you will find the right you."
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"Honestly, the point is I no more expect you to acknowledge or respect my feelings, there ends your story! HAPPY ME!"
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"No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth..."
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"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
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"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
Society

"Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promise for them. Already they recall the lives of their grandfathers with envy. They will see that political revolutions and trade stagnations will increase. The feeling will pervade the Galaxy that only what a man can grasp for himself at that moment will be of any account. Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds."
Society

"Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience."
Ethics

"I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome--but I'd still be stupid. So, in the long run, I've won out."
Self

"Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us."
Philosophy

"It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong."
Science

"It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"
Insight

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
Men
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