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"Why do you want to read anyway " for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?"
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"This corn will teach to you, should you peel away the husk, and be willing to open your ears."
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"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."
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"The best way to learn is through direct experience."
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"I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life."
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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
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"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
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"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
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"Save your mind from a premature death by always learning something new no matter your age! Think every day, but make sure it's not within the perimeter of the box! Think outside the box!"
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"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
Wisdom

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents."
Education

"Why do you want to read anyway " for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn't make you peaceful, what good is it?"
Learning

"Freedom is the right to live as we wish."
Freedom

"It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire."
Survival

"Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else."
Purpose

"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."
Hope

"Bear and forbear."
Self

"And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials."
Knowledge

"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
Courage
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