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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy."

"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual."

"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."
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