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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"
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"Bureaucracy is a huge beast; deeply rooted, it exists even among artists; it's an almost losing battle against it."
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be."
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts."
Belief
"A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life."
Education
"The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture."
Spiritual
"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live."
Success
"Life without absorbing occupation is hell."
Occupation
"There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe."
Culture
"An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed."
Humor
"Fear clogs; faith liberates."
Faith
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
Genius
"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."
Creativity
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