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"People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period."
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Personal Development
"The greatest treasures are books."
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Personal Development
"I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t."
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Personal Development
"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."
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Personal Development
"Always we learn things and then we forget them."
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Personal Development
"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
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Personal Development
"If you fail at something, it means you have not mastered the art. With persistence practice, you will be master and eventually succeed."
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Personal Development
"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."
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Personal Development
"The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing "alive and kicking" dreams."
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Personal Development
"Save your mind from a premature death by always learning something new no matter your age! Think every day, but make sure it's not within the perimeter of the box! Think outside the box!"
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
Future
"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
Inspirational
"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
American
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
Act
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
Man
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
Education
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
Creativity
"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
Forgiveness
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
Health
"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
Ethics
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