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"In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him."
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"We change when circumstances necessitate it, we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all."
"If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'."
"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."
"When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one's socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ['Another empty room']"
"She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her."
"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."
"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."
"We continuously make promises and create agreements with ourselves and others. Some of these agreements are mutually beneficial. However, when you realize that things you agreed to in the past are no longer helpful, possible, or relevant, renegotiate. Be invested enough in your situations or relationships for renegotiation to take place."
"There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man."
"For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change."
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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."
"None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."
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