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"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
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"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
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"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
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"We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably."
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"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
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"It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes."
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"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
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"When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed."
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"When our environment changes we change, and this combination of transformative deeds create a synergistic effect. Seemingly, insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes can eventfully lead to fundamental qualitative changes in the way a group of people function as a society."
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"Being happy where you are does not mean that you must unquestioningly accept parts of your environment that don't serve you. Where you are is inside of this amazing body, this beautiful moment, this capable mind. Where you are is inside of an eternal opportunity. And sometimes you need to change your environment to remember that."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
Experience
"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
Wisdom
"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
Mind
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
Age
"America is a young country with an old mentality."
Politics
"Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence."
Life
"Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
Spiritual
"Art is a delayed echo."
Art
"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."
Philosophy
"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."
Hope
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