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"Don't get too lost in consumerism or materialism. As for ownership, the ultimate test of it is were you born with it and can you take it with you when you leave?"

"Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."

"In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive."

"God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation."

"The desire to get money through jobs enslaves us."

"If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are."
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"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."

"A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement."

"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
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