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"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
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"We continuously make promises and create agreements with ourselves and others. Some of these agreements are mutually beneficial. However, when you realize that things you agreed to in the past are no longer helpful, possible, or relevant, renegotiate. Be invested enough in your situations or relationships for renegotiation to take place."
"Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary."
"To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido."
"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."
"Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them."
"If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'."
"She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her."
"There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed."
"THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING."
"To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead."
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"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."
"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
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