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"You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person."
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"I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an' on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an' that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land."

"A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay."

"Life is beautiful dream."

"The moment you choose your vision, great confliction comes along. You have confliction even if you don't choose the vision. Our soul grows not by living life within a small confliction, but rather living with big conflictions inside a big vision. A soul with a vision can succeed."

"To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path."

"My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty."

"As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle."

"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."
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"People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives."


"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."


"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."


"From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment."


"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction."


"Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?"
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