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"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."


"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."


"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."


"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."
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"The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone."

"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."

"He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things."

"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."

"It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project."

"Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production."

"Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres."

"Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
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