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"It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish."
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"To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more."
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"You can only write well, what you have experienced."
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"It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish."
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"The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do."
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"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
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"Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship."
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"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
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"The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King."
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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."
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"The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
Democracy
"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
Reflection
"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
Literature
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."
Religion
"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens."
Education
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
Politics
"Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible."
Hope
"Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury."
Politics
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right."
Politics
"He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, false, and he is thereby apt to acquire a doubt of everything, including his own beliefs."
Skepticism
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