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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
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"Use time to discover who you are."

"Your inner world creates your outer world."

"Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections."

"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."

"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."

"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."

"Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings."

"The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That's how you learn who you are."

"Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!"

"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."
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"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."

"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."

"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."

"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."

"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
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