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"Not everything set on fire will rise."
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Personal Development
"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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Personal Development
"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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Personal Development
"A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field."
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Personal Development
"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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Personal Development
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
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Personal Development
"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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Personal Development
"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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Personal Development
"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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Personal Development
"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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"The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand."
Danger
"Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame."
Control
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
Discipline
"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
Truth
"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
Cynicism
"The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge."
Reality
"The mind can go either direction under stress-toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training."
Stress
"What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."
Obedience
"There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story."
Storytelling
"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
Adventure
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