"Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."

Growth, Improvement, Progress, Wisdom

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"Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius."

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"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are."

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"The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal."

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"When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose."

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"His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching."

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"Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year."

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"We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one."

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"As a man is so he sees."

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"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

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"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does."

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"Exuberance is beauty."

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"I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity."

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"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

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