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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
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Personal Development
"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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Personal Development
"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
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Personal Development
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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"Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast."
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"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
Creativity
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
Discipline
"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
Experience
"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
Army
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
Love
"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."
Confidence
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."
Home
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
Man
"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
Dream
"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."
Dream
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