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"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."

"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."

"The best way to truly live a consistent life of passion is to formulate daily habits and a daily routine that engages you and makes you feel more passionate about life."

"I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart."

"People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book."

"Living simply makes loving simple."

"Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk."

"A life of passion is not an act or a habit but a lifestyle."
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"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

"Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets."

"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."

"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others."

"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."

"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy."
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