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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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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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"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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Personal Development

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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Personal Development

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
Technology

"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
War

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."
Life

"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead."
Prevention

"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
Death

"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions."
Leadership

"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents."
Being

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."
Science vs. Religion

"Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."
Stars

"We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
War
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