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"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
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Personal Development
"The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it."
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Personal Development
"Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying."
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Personal Development
"Here's some advice. Stay alive."
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Personal Development
"What we cannot bear removes us from life, what remains can be borne."
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Personal Development
"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival."
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Personal Development
"It's not over if you're still here, Chronicler said. "It's not a tragedy if you're still alive."
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Personal Development
"To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I've adamantly committed to never hoard hoards."
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Personal Development
"The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself."
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Personal Development
"I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed."
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"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."
Survival
"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."
Fun
"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
Body
"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."
Ability
"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
Age
"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading."
Reading
"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."
People
"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity."
Humanity
"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
History
"Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions."
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