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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
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"True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently."
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"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
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"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
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"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
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"It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold."
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"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very, ' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
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"You only need enough experience to master the art."
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"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."
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"Your expertise elevates your impressions to an entirely new realm. When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people will be impressed."
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"Skill to do comes of doing."
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"...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same."
Criticism
"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
Knowledge
"The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead."
Life
"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
Education
"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."
Peace
"Power is not alluring to pure minds."
Wisdom
"The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."
Society
"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."
Science
"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."
Society
"All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not."
Mortality
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