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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
Being

"An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can."
Society

"In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years."
Work

"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art."
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"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy."
Mind

"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."
Age

"Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine."
Society

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."
Education

"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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