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"There nearly always is a method in madness."
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"If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering."

"You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination."

"Sex is a form of exploration, it is asking questions and getting answer."

"One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people."

"The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles."

"The more a person is united within himself or herself and inwardly simple, the more and higher things he or she understands, because he or she receives the light of understanding from within."

"There nearly always is a method in madness."

"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."

"People who don't know how to use their minds can't really know how to use their hearts either."

"I tried to understand you... I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself... but I more likely become a victim on myself."
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"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."

"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."

"The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side."

"The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can't play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all."

"The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact, it is actually our truisms that are untrue."
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