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"If I sound as if I'm always predicting ominous things, it's because I'm a pragmatist. I use deductive reasoning to generalize, and I suppose this sometimes ends up sounding like unlucky prophecies. You know why? Because reality's just the accumulation of ominous prophecies come to life. You have to only open a newspaper on any given day and weigh the good news versus the bad, and you'll see what I mean."
"Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different."
". . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . ."
"I don't need shoes. I need a night scope. You think they sell night scopes someplace here?"
"A realist is a slave to reality."
"Realism can break a writer's heart."
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"Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means."
"When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all."
"Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity."
"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."
"Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong."
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