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"But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them."
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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."

"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."

"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."

"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."

"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."

"Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite journey whose path is blazed with the guiding light of wisdom."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"A 'biomass' man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions."
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"Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened- good, bad, or anywhere in between- it was always, if nothing else, all your own."


"So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."


"It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering."


"It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be."


"But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential."


"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."


"I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good."


"He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them."
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