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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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Personal Development
"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."
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Personal Development
"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"
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Personal Development
"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."
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Personal Development
"When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions."
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Personal Development
"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."
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Personal Development
"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."
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Personal Development
"Mind knows the questions, soul knows the answers."
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Personal Development
"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."
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"Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society don't think straight. They are perverted in their thoughts."
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"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."
History
"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
Cultural
"You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time."
Time
"From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment."
Judgment
"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."
Art
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
Attitude
"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."
Goal
"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."
Experience
"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"
Fun
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
Age
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