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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."

"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."

"What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right, no one can be always right."

"To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don't give him poem to recite; don't give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is."

"Wisdom is the result of time well spent."

"Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite journey whose path is blazed with the guiding light of wisdom."

"Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."

"A 'biomass' man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions."
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"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are."

"A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected."

"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."

"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."

"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard."
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