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"The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important."
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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
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"The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do."
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"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
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"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."
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"One thought fills immensity."
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"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."
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"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."
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"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."
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"Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again."
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"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."
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"Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten."
Knowledge
"Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone."
Life
"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."
Cultural
"Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"
Nature
"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too."
Knowledge
"The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important."
Thought
"The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests."
Mind
"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."
Money
"Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality."
Life
"The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on."
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