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"It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better."
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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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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
Failure
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
Art
"Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
Identity
"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
Law
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
Genius
"God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past."
History
"Acquaintance n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to."
Society
"Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star."
Accountability
"Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge."
Love
"On this night I had searched for them without success, fearing to find them; they were nowhere in the house, nor about the moonlit dawn. For, although the sun is lost to us for ever, the moon, full-orbed or slender, remains to us. Sometimes it shines by night, sometimes by day, but always it rises and sets, as in that other life."
Reflection
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