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"Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer."
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"While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost."
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"You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
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"All the known world excepting only savage nations is governed by books."
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"What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
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"The truth is that few know the truth."
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"Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living."
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"Regardless of one's age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful."
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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."
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"You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!"
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"What you know for me is just the little from the many."
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"A good beginning makes a good end."
Wisdom
"I've noticed...that whenever a man is asked to be realistic he is being asked to betray something in which he believes. It is the favorite argument of those who believe that only the end matters, not the means."
Philosophy
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
Literature
"It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead."
Morality
"You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it."
Nature
"I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen."
Motivation
"What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough."
Motivation
"Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware."
Psychology
"It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become?Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination."
Life
"One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me but I always got up."
Motivation
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