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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."
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"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'."
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"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."
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Personal Development
"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']"
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Personal Development
"She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her."
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Personal Development
"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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"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."
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"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."
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Personal Development
"There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man."
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Personal Development
"For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
Friendship
"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
Family
"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
Fool
"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."
Purpose
"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
Education
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
Money
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
Time
"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
Man
"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."
Family
"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement."
Art
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