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"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
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"What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!"
"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."
"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."
"To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being."
"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
"Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
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