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"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."

"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."

"He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."
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"You can't try to do things you simply must do them."

"It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."

"I never fight except against difficulties."

"Determined soul, willing spirit."

"I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her."

"It's up to you, not fate."

"Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey."

"If your will is your deepest pure desires, then it will manifest in its own due time."
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