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"In our dynamic age, the speed of motion is increasing."
"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."
"We can say that one has remained [correctly] in worldly interaction if one has 'adjusted everywhere'."
"When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me."
"It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways."
"Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process."
"For most people the environment controls them rather than being in full control of experiences."
"You don't need to fight situation. You must only adjust, adapt and advance."
"To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead."
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"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."
"Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds."
"Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth."
"Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence."
"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"
"Imagine that every man's mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but the individuality would have gone."
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