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"Wide reading is important. You don't have to like it, but it's important to grapple with things you don't understand. I've been spending the last six months getting up an hour early to try to understand economics because I need to. I don't want to be one of these bewildered schmucks. The things that you understand will inform your writing. The bigger your mind, the better your work is going to be. You're not born with a big mind; you have to build it. If I don't read for an hour a day, I get ill."
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"The absence of specific knowledge about success is the reason why your journey along the path to success has been halted."
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"When your knowlege increases over time, yearn to learn to dance in your mind."
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"Read,not to believe, contradict or complement, but to understand."
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"Know the history of the great ancestors."
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"Desire to seek, desire to learn."
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"If we read the Gospel, we shall know the goodness of the Good News."
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"Seek knowledge from the Great Spirit."
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"There is nothing better in life than commitment to personal development and lifelong learning."
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"Specific knowledge is needed in every work, if we want to have success."
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"There is no science without spirituality, spirituality has no meaning without science."
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"I think we still believe that ambition is for boys."
Ambition
"I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking."
Philosophy
"The wider we read the freer we become."
Knowledge
"It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books-not part of me, all of me-and then the books themselves inform the sense of what I am. So the more I can be, the better the books will be."
Creativity
"You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there."
Life
"Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?"
Ethics
"The free man never thinks of escape."
Freedom
"Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox, that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there."
Love
"Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?"
Fantasy
"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."
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