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"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."
Time

"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."
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"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."
Earth

"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."
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"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
Technology

"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
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"War is the ultimate tool of politics."
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"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword."
Devil

"Either war is obsolete, or men are."
Man

"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."
People
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