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"If there is no room in the river, swim to the ocean."
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"If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation."
"Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process."
"There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way."
"While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world."
"At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with."
"The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.The moral of the story?Kids are smart."
"But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die."
"After awhile you could get used to anything."
"In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless."
"To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido."
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"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."
"Welcome the righteous, avoid the wicked, and yet open both arms to the repentant. Whoever receives them receives God."
"One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine."
"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
"An evil person will have evil friends. A righteous person will have righteous friends. The company you keep is hidden treasure or masked demise."
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